Talavera
"talavera" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Talavera” is uncommon English (frequency #93,215 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,215
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, known for its pottery; in full, Talavera de la Reina.
Corpus desk
Index EN-talavera · Talavera · English
Talavera · rank #93,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,215
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Taniguchi
Nearest frequency peer: Taniguchi (+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 “Talavera”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Swedenborg
Swedenborg
6,790 corpus weight
- syncretic
syncretic
6,789 corpus weight
- synonymously
synonymously
6,788 corpus weight
- Talavera
Talavera
6,786 corpus weight
- Taniguchi
Taniguchi
6,785 corpus weight
- tautological
tautological
6,782 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Talavera” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Talavera |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Talavera” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Talavera is uncommon English at frequency #93,215 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Talavera, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Talavera, spelled T-A-L-A-V-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, known for its pottery; in full, Talavera de la Reina.
- 2An 1809 battle during the Peninsula War fought outside the city.
- 3A kind of Spanish and Mexican majolica pottery with a milky-white glaze.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Talavera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[He] had been a conspicuous figure at Talavera, and had contributed not a little to the peculiar terror with which his regiment of infantry was regarded by the enemy.
Many pieces of stanniferous faience have been found in Mexico which have come to be known as Talavera ware.
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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