tanga
"tanga" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tanga” is uncommon English (frequency #69,493 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,493
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of various former Asian coins, including: a coin of Portuguese India worth one tenth of a rupee; a gold coin of India issued by various Muslim rulers; a silver coin of India, also issued by Mus...
Corpus desk
Index EN-tanga · tanga · English
tanga · rank #69,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,493
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tampere
Nearest frequency peer: Tampere (-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 “tanga”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- swizz
swizz
30,518 corpus weight
- tabling
tabling
30,515 corpus weight
- Taku
Taku
30,512 corpus weight
- Tampere
Tampere
30,509 corpus weight
- tanga
tanga
30,508 corpus weight
- teargas
teargas
30,501 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tanga” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanga |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tanga” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tanga is uncommon English at frequency #69,493 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of various former Asian coins, including: a coin of Portuguese India worth one tenth of a rupee; a gold coin of India issued by various Muslim rulers; a silver coin of India, also issued by Mus...".
tanga doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is tanga, spelled T-A-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Any of various former Asian coins, including: a coin of Portuguese India worth one tenth of a rupee; a gold coin of India issued by various Muslim rulers; a silver coin of India, also issued by Muslim rulers; and a former silver coin of Tibet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tanga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The larines are woorth by just value basaruchies 93 and 3 fourth parts, and 4 larines make a seraphine of siluer, which is 5 tangas of good money, and these also haue serafagion of 6, 7, 8, 10, vntil 16, by the 100, for when the ships depart for the North, to say, for Chaul, Diu, Cambaia, or Bassaim, all cary of the same, because it is money more currant…
The first and largest item is, the purchase of a wife, 25 rupees. Culinary and other utensils.--Bedding, 6 rupees; antimony for the lady's eyes, 3 tangas : an iron boiler, 2 rupees; a wooden bowl and spoons, 3 tangas; ....
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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