Tana
"tana" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tana” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,369. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,369
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nickname for Antananarivo: the capital and largest city of Madagascar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tana · Tana · English
Tana · rank #36,369 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,369
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH talkie
Nearest frequency peer: talkie (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Tana”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Sylvie
Sylvie
63,636 corpus weight
- syntactic
syntactic
63,635 corpus weight
- Takahashi
Takahashi
63,634 corpus weight
- talkie
talkie
63,633 corpus weight
- Tana
Tana
63,632 corpus weight
- thang
thang
63,631 corpus weight
What this shows “Tana” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Tana”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Tana, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,369 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nickname for Antananarivo: the capital and largest city of Madagascar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tana, with forms such as "atna", "taan", and "tanna". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TN", "tax", "ten", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Tana. The correct English form is Tana, spelled T-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Nickname for Antananarivo: the capital and largest city of Madagascar.
Etymology
From French Tana.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atna
- taan
- tanna
- tnaa
- ttana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tana - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tana", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).