Tammany
"tammany" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tammany” is uncommon English (frequency #51,434 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,434
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tammany |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tammany” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tammany is uncommon English at frequency #51,434 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Tammany has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Tamanend or Tammany was a chief of part of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley who became a hero to the colonists and gave his name to organizations throughout the American colonies beginning in 1772. One was New York City's Society of St. Tamman… The correct English form is Tammany, spelled T-A-M-M-A-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
- 2The nickname of the New York County Democratic Party, until the success of reform elements in the 1970s.
- 3A style of corrupt democratic politics.
Etymology
Tamanend or Tammany was a chief of part of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley who became a hero to the colonists and gave his name to organizations throughout the American colonies beginning in 1772. One was New York City's Society of St. Tammany, which became the New York County Democratic Party organization.
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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Using “Tammany”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-A-M-M-A-N-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.