taa
"taa" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“taa” is uncommon English (frequency #51,432 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,432
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-taa · taa · English
taa · rank #51,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,432
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tammany
Nearest frequency peer: Tammany (+2 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “taa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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48,569 corpus weight
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48,567 corpus weight
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48,566 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “taa” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taa” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
taa is uncommon English at frequency #51,432 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.".
taa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”). The correct English form is taa, spelled T-A-A.
Definition
- 1A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.
Etymology
From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.