Tancred
/ˈtæŋkɹɪd/
"tancred" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tancred” is uncommon English (frequency #95,491 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,491
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by the Normans in the Middle Ages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tancred · Tancred · English
Tancred · rank #95,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,491
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tanjore
Nearest frequency peer: Tanjore (+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 “Tancred”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tablature
tablature
4,517 corpus weight
- Taconic
Taconic
4,516 corpus weight
- Tancred
Tancred
4,510 corpus weight
- Tanjore
Tanjore
4,509 corpus weight
- tannoy
tannoy
4,508 corpus weight
- tantalizing…
tantalizingly
4,507 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tancred” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tancred |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈtæŋkɹɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tancred” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tancred is uncommon English at frequency #95,491 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈtæŋkɹɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by the Normans in the Middle Ages.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tancred in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is Tancred, spelled T-A-N-C-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by the Normans in the Middle Ages.
This word in other languages
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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