targum
/ˈtɑːɡəm/
"targum" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“targum” is uncommon English (frequency #89,977 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,977
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-targum · targum · English
targum · rank #89,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,977
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tanuki
Nearest frequency peer: tanuki (-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 “targum”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Takano
Takano
10,029 corpus weight
- talky
talky
10,028 corpus weight
- Tallman
Tallman
10,027 corpus weight
- tanuki
tanuki
10,025 corpus weight
- targum
targum
10,024 corpus weight
- tela
tela
10,020 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “targum” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | targum |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɑːɡəm/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “targum” in English
Rare enough to double-check
targum is uncommon English at frequency #89,977 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɑːɡəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.".
Zero misspellings are on record for targum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew תַּרְגּוּם (targúm, “translation”). The correct English form is targum, spelled T-A-R-G-U-M.
Definition
- 1An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how targum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jonathan who compiled the Thargum, conceives the colours of these banners to answer the pretious stones in the breastplate, and upon which the names of the Tribes were engraven.
Eventually, the words of such Aramaic whisper-translations (called chuchotage in the modern world of international interpreters) were written down, mostly in small fragments, and these targums now provide precious linguistic and historical records for scholars of Judaism.
Etymology
From Hebrew תַּרְגּוּם (targúm, “translation”).
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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