Taku
"taku" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Taku” is uncommon English (frequency #69,489 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,489
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A river in Alaska and British Columbia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-taku · Taku · English
Taku · rank #69,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,489
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tabling
Nearest frequency peer: tabling (-3 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 “Taku”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- swire
swire
30,519 corpus weight
- swizz
swizz
30,518 corpus weight
- tabling
tabling
30,515 corpus weight
- Taku
Taku
30,512 corpus weight
- Tampere
Tampere
30,509 corpus weight
- tanga
tanga
30,508 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Taku” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taku |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Taku” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Taku is uncommon English at frequency #69,489 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A river in Alaska and British Columbia.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Taku in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tlingit Tʼaaḵu. The correct English form is Taku, spelled T-A-K-U.
Definition
- 1A river in Alaska and British Columbia.
Etymology
From Tlingit Tʼaaḵu.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).