tartness

Other forms of tartness

plural

tartnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tartness

What does tartness mean?

tartness means "the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tartness?

tartness has 2 syllables: tart-ness. The stress falls on "tart". In IPA it is /ˈtɑɹtnəs/.

What is another word for tartness?

Close synonyms include sour, sourness, acerbity, bitterness, acrimony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tartness a common word?

tartness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.