Tagus
/ˈteɪ.ɡəs/
"tagus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tagus” is uncommon English (frequency #85,838 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,838
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tagus · Tagus · English
Tagus · rank #85,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,838
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH sympathised
Nearest frequency peer: sympathised (-2 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 “Tagus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- suzerainty
suzerainty
14,169 corpus weight
- sympathised
sympathised
14,165 corpus weight
- Tagus
Tagus
14,163 corpus weight
- Taiwo
Taiwo
14,161 corpus weight
- Talwar
Talwar
14,159 corpus weight
- Tamerlane
Tamerlane
14,158 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tagus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tagus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈteɪ.ɡəs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tagus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tagus is uncommon English at frequency #85,838 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈteɪ.ɡəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tagus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Derived from Latin Tagus. The correct English form is Tagus, spelled T-A-G-U-S.
Definition
- 1A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.
Etymology
Derived from Latin Tagus.
This word in other languages
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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