great-tit
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "great-tit", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "great-tit" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "great-tit" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“great tit” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: A bird in the Paridae family, Parus major.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | great tit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹeɪt tɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “great tit” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for great tit is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡɹeɪt tɪt/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A bird in the Paridae family, Parus major.".
No misspelling variants are generated for great tit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is great tit, spelled G-R-E-A-T- -T-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A bird in the Paridae family, Parus major.
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- The one correct English spelling is G-R-E-A-T- -T-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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