Taliesin
/ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/
"taliesin" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Taliesin” is uncommon English (frequency #83,803 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,803
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-taliesin · Taliesin · English
Taliesin · rank #83,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,803
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Taranto
Nearest frequency peer: Taranto (+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 “Taliesin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sweeny
Sweeny
16,204 corpus weight
- tach
tach
16,200 corpus weight
- Taliesin
Taliesin
16,198 corpus weight
- Taranto
Taranto
16,197 corpus weight
- taters
taters
16,196 corpus weight
- tatted
tatted
16,195 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Taliesin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Taliesin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Taliesin is uncommon English at frequency #83,803 among 3,151 “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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