Tarragona
/tɑːɹəˈɡəʊnə/
"tarragona" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tarragona” is uncommon English (frequency #80,033 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,033
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and port in Catalonia, Spain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tarragona · Tarragona · English
Tarragona · rank #80,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,033
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Taubman
Nearest frequency peer: Taubman (+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 “Tarragona”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- syntactical…
syntactically
19,973 corpus weight
- Tarragona
Tarragona
19,968 corpus weight
- Taubman
Taubman
19,967 corpus weight
- Taupo
Taupo
19,966 corpus weight
- TDA
TDA
19,964 corpus weight
- Tellus
Tellus
19,963 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tarragona” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tarragona |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tɑːɹəˈɡəʊnə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tarragona” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tarragona is uncommon English at frequency #80,033 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /tɑːɹəˈɡəʊnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tarragona in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Catalan Tarragona, ultimately from Latin Tarracō. The correct English form is Tarragona, spelled T-A-R-R-A-G-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1A city and port in Catalonia, Spain.
- 2A province of Catalonia, Spain.
- 3A municipality of Davao Oriental, Philippines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tarragona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meronyms: Cabagayan, Central, Dadong, Jovellar, Limot, Lucatan, Maganda, Ompao, Tomoaong, Tubaon — barangays of Tarragona
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan Tarragona, ultimately from Latin Tarracō.
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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