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Yes. The word tartar is a Scrabble US word. The word tartar is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

TARTAR,

5-letter words (2 found)

ATTAR,TATAR,

4-letter words (5 found)

ARAR,RATA,TARA,TART,TRAT,

3-letter words (5 found)

ART,ATT,RAT,TAR,TAT,

2-letter words (4 found)

AA,AR,AT,TA,

You can make 17 words from tartar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tartar

tartar

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: tärʹ-tər, IPA(key): /ˈtɑɹ.tɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tärʹ-tər, IPA(key): /ˈtɑː.tə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: tar‧tar
  • Homophone: tarter

Etymology 1

From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct.

Noun

tartar (countable and uncountable, plural tartars)

  1. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
  2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From figurative use of Tartar.

Noun

tartar (plural tartars)

  1. (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.
Derived terms
  • tartar sauce

Finnish

Etymology

From French tartare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑrtɑr/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝rt̪ɑ̝r]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrtɑr
  • Syllabification(key): tar‧tar

Adjective

tartar (not comparable)

  1. tartare (chopped fine and served raw)
    tartar-pihvi
    steak tartare

Declension

Not inflected; used only as modifier.

Derived terms

Noun

tartar

  1. A dish prepared with finely chopped, raw ingredients; in English the names of these dishes are formed with the adjective "tartare".

Declension

Anagrams

  • tarrat

Italian

Noun

tartar f (invariable)

  1. Alternative form of tartare

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French Tartare.

Adjective

tartar m (feminine singular tartare, masculine plural tartars, feminine plural tartares)

  1. Tartar (of or relating to any of several Turkic groups)

Descendants

  • French: tartare

References

  • tartare on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old Irish

Verb

·tartar

  1. passive singular present subjunctive perfective prototonic of do·beir

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic тарътаръ (tarŭtarŭ), from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Doublet of Tartarus.

Noun

tartar n (plural tartaruri)

  1. hell

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French (bifteck) tartare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɾˈtaɾ/ [t̪aɾˈt̪aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: tar‧tar

Noun

tartar m (plural tartares)

  1. tartar

Further reading

  • “tartar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org