Tacloban
/tɐkˈlo.bɐn/
"tacloban" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tacloban” is uncommon English (frequency #79,110 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,110
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the provincial capital of Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tacloban · Tacloban · English
Tacloban · rank #79,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,110
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Takayama
Nearest frequency peer: Takayama (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Tacloban”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- swale
swale
20,897 corpus weight
- swart
swart
20,896 corpus weight
- swordplay
swordplay
20,895 corpus weight
- Tacloban
Tacloban
20,891 corpus weight
- Takayama
Takayama
20,890 corpus weight
- tapu
tapu
20,886 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tacloban” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tacloban |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tɐkˈlo.bɐn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tacloban” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tacloban is uncommon English at frequency #79,110 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /tɐkˈlo.bɐn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the provincial capital of Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines.".
Tacloban doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish Tacloban, from Waray-Waray Tarakluban (“place of the taklub”). The correct English form is Tacloban, spelled T-A-C-L-O-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1A city, the provincial capital of Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines.
Etymology
From Spanish Tacloban, from Waray-Waray Tarakluban (“place of the taklub”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).