talismans
/ˈtæ.lɪs.mænz/
"talismans" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talismans” is uncommon English (frequency #62,555 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,555
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of talisman
Corpus desk
Index EN-talismans · talismans · English
talismans · rank #62,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,555
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tamaki
Nearest frequency peer: Tamaki (+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 “talismans”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tabbed
tabbed
37,450 corpus weight
- tabula
tabula
37,449 corpus weight
- tactfully
tactfully
37,448 corpus weight
- talismans
talismans
37,446 corpus weight
- Tamaki
Tamaki
37,445 corpus weight
- tandoori
tandoori
37,443 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “talismans” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talismans |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtæ.lɪs.mænz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “talismans” in English
Rare enough to double-check
talismans is uncommon English at frequency #62,555 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtæ.lɪs.mænz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of talisman".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for talismans, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is talismans, spelled T-A-L-I-S-M-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of talisman
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).