Tamagotchi
/ˌtaməˈɡɒtʃɪ/
"tamagotchi" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tamagotchi” is uncommon English (frequency #73,689 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,689
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A toy consisting of a small electronic virtual pet, a cyberpet.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tamagotchi · Tamagotchi · English
Tamagotchi · rank #73,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,689
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tahu
Nearest frequency peer: Tahu (-2 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 “Tamagotchi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Swanton
Swanton
26,320 corpus weight
- Tahu
Tahu
26,314 corpus weight
- Tamagotchi
Tamagotchi
26,312 corpus weight
- Tarun
Tarun
26,310 corpus weight
- Tasso
Tasso
26,308 corpus weight
- tawa
tawa
26,306 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tamagotchi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tamagotchi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌtaməˈɡɒtʃɪ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tamagotchi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tamagotchi is uncommon English at frequency #73,689 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌtaməˈɡɒtʃɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A toy consisting of a small electronic virtual pet, a cyberpet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tamagotchi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: A genericization of Tamagotchi, the name of a virtual pet series: the word is a Japanese blend of 卵 (たまご, tamago, “egg”) + ウオッチ (uotchi, from English watch). The correct English form is Tamagotchi, spelled T-A-M-A-G-O-T-C-H-I.
Definition
- 1A toy consisting of a small electronic virtual pet, a cyberpet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tamagotchi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tamagotchi.
Etymology
A genericization of Tamagotchi, the name of a virtual pet series: the word is a Japanese blend of 卵 (たまご, tamago, “egg”) + ウオッチ (uotchi, from English watch).
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).