tamas
"tamas" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tamas” is uncommon English (frequency #74,560 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,560
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tamas · tamas · English
tamas · rank #74,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,560
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH taproom
Nearest frequency peer: taproom (+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 “tamas”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tachometer
tachometer
25,444 corpus weight
- tachyon
tachyon
25,443 corpus weight
- tamas
tamas
25,441 corpus weight
- taproom
taproom
25,440 corpus weight
- tarnation
tarnation
25,439 corpus weight
- Tauri
Tauri
25,438 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tamas” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tamas” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tamas is uncommon English at frequency #74,560 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tamas in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”). The correct English form is tamas, spelled T-A-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).
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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