Taliesin
/ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/
"taliesin" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Taliesin” is uncommon English (frequency #83,803 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,803
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taliesin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Taliesin” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Taliesin is uncommon English at frequency #83,803 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Taliesin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Taliesin, spelled T-A-L-I-E-S-I-N.
Definition
- 1An early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.
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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Using “Taliesin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-A-L-I-E-S-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.