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tambon

noun

tambon is spelled T-A-M-B-O-N: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tambon means “An administrative subunit in Thailand below district (amphoe) and province (changwat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tambon is tambons.

How many letters and syllables are in tambon?

Letters6: T-A-M-B-O-N
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is tambon?

Tambon appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of tambon

  • tambons plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tambon mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An administrative subunit in Thailand below district (amphoe) and province (changwat).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does tambon come from?

Borrowed from Thai ตำบล (dtam-bon).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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