taluk
"taluk" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“taluk” is uncommon English (frequency #70,318 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,318
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district.
Corpus desk
Index EN-taluk · taluk · English
taluk · rank #70,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,318
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Takata
Nearest frequency peer: Takata (-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 “taluk”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tactless
tactless
29,686 corpus weight
- taillight
taillight
29,685 corpus weight
- Takata
Takata
29,684 corpus weight
- taluk
taluk
29,683 corpus weight
- Taney
Taney
29,681 corpus weight
- tangling
tangling
29,680 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “taluk” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taluk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “taluk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
taluk is uncommon English at frequency #70,318 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for taluk in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Arabic تَعَلَّقَ (taʕallaqa)der. Arabic تَعَلُّق (taʕalluq)bor. Classical Persian تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq)bor. Urdu تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq)bor. English taluk Borrowed from Urdu تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq), borrowed from Classical Persian تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq), … The correct English form is taluk, spelled T-A-L-U-K.
Definition
- 1A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taluk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suvarnapur, Ratnanagari, a few other native states, and seven or eight taluks were under his jurisdiction.
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic تَعَلَّقَ (taʕallaqa)der. Arabic تَعَلُّق (taʕalluq)bor. Classical Persian تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq)bor. Urdu تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq)bor. English taluk Borrowed from Urdu تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq), borrowed from Classical Persian تَعَلُّق (ta'alluq), borrowed from Arabic تَعَلُّق (taʕalluq), from تَعَلَّقَ (taʕallaqa).
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).