Tarzana
"tarzana" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tarzana” is uncommon English (frequency #86,834 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,834
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tarzana · Tarzana · English
Tarzana · rank #86,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,834
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tartrate
Nearest frequency peer: tartrate (-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 “Tarzana”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tartrate
tartrate
13,168 corpus weight
- Tarzana
Tarzana
13,167 corpus weight
- teasingly
teasingly
13,165 corpus weight
- Tebbit
Tebbit
13,164 corpus weight
- technocracy
technocracy
13,163 corpus weight
- technocrat
technocrat
13,162 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tarzana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tarzana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tarzana” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tarzana is uncommon English at frequency #86,834 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tarzana in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tarzan + -ana, from being on the site of a former ranch owned by author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The correct English form is Tarzana, spelled T-A-R-Z-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Etymology
From Tarzan + -ana, from being on the site of a former ranch owned by author Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).