tai
/taɪ/noun
tai is spelled T-A-I: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tai means “A fish, the Japanese bream” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tai?
| Letters | 3: T-A-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,928th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tai?
Tai appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tai?
- /taɪ/
Tai has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tie.ogg, En-au-tie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tai
Sounds like: Thai, tie (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with tai?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tai.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ita, ait.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does tai mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A fish, the Japanese bream.
noun
- 1
A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.
noun
- 1
Initialism of trifluoromethylaminoindane.
- 2
Initialism of technical analysis indicator.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tai in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense language family:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | taï |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tai come from?
From Japanese 鯛 (たい, tai).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).