tallis
"tallis" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tallis” is uncommon English (frequency #52,035 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,035
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of tallit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tallis · tallis · English
tallis · rank #52,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,035
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH talc
Nearest frequency peer: talc (-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 “tallis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- survivalist
survivalist
47,970 corpus weight
- tableware
tableware
47,968 corpus weight
- talc
talc
47,967 corpus weight
- tallis
tallis
47,966 corpus weight
- tapeworm
tapeworm
47,965 corpus weight
- Teesside
Teesside
47,963 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tallis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tallis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tallis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tallis is uncommon English at frequency #52,035 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of tallit.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tallis, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is tallis, spelled T-A-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of tallit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tallis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] the congregants struggle to touch their lips to some part of my new blue Ohrbach’s suit, while the old men press forward to touch their tallises to my sparkling London Character shoes.
“The twins hid their bodies under their father's tallis, like ghosts.”
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).