Tallahassee
/ˌtæləˈhæsi/
"tallahassee" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tallahassee” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,522
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Florida, United States and the county seat of Leon County.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tallahassee · Tallahassee · English
Tallahassee · rank #22,522 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,522
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tahoe
Nearest frequency peer: Tahoe (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Tallahassee”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- swoop
swoop
77,482 corpus weight
- synchronized
synchronized
77,481 corpus weight
- Tahoe
Tahoe
77,480 corpus weight
- Tallahassee
Tallahassee
77,479 corpus weight
- telly
telly
77,478 corpus weight
- Terence
Terence
77,476 corpus weight
What this shows “Tallahassee” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tallahassee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌtæləˈhæsi/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Tallahassee”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Tallahassee (IPA /ˌtæləˈhæsi/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,522 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The capital city of Florida, United States and the county seat of Leon County.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tallahassee, with forms such as "atllahassee", "talahassee", and "talalhassee". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Creek tvlvhasse, pronounced [talaháːssi], from etvlw (“town”) + vhassē (“old”). Compare Tulsa, from the same or a similar term. The correct English form is Tallahassee, spelled T-A-L-L-A-H-A-S-S-E-E.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Florida, United States and the county seat of Leon County.
Etymology
Borrowed from Creek tvlvhasse, pronounced [talaháːssi], from etvlw (“town”) + vhassē (“old”). Compare Tulsa, from the same or a similar term.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atllahassee
- talahassee
- talalhassee
- tallaahssee
- tallahasee
- tallahasese
- tallahasse
- tallahhassee
- tallahsasee
- tallhaassee
- tlalahassee
- ttallahassee
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tallahassee - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tallahassee", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).