Talladega
/ˌtæləˈdɪɡə/
"talladega" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Talladega” is uncommon English (frequency #50,266 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,266
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Talladega County, Alabama, United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Talladega |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌtæləˈdɪɡə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Talladega” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Talladega is uncommon English at frequency #50,266 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌtæləˈdɪɡə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the county seat of Talladega County, Alabama, United States.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Talladega in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Creek language Tvlvteke, meaning "town on the border" (of tribal territories). The correct English form is Talladega, spelled T-A-L-L-A-D-E-G-A.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Talladega County, Alabama, United States.
Etymology
From the Creek language Tvlvteke, meaning "town on the border" (of tribal territories).
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 “Talladega”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-A-L-L-A-D-E-G-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.