tase
/teɪz/
"tase" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tase” is uncommon English (frequency #68,688 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,688
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - to operate a taser or electroshock stun gun, by using it against a subject
Corpus desk
Index EN-tase · tase · English
tase · rank #68,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,688
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tarleton
Nearest frequency peer: Tarleton (-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 “tase”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tanis
Tanis
31,316 corpus weight
- Targ
Targ
31,315 corpus weight
- Tarleton
Tarleton
31,314 corpus weight
- tase
tase
31,313 corpus weight
- terrapin
terrapin
31,311 corpus weight
- Thiruvanant…
Thiruvananthapuram
31,310 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tase” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tase |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /teɪz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tase” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tase is uncommon English at frequency #68,688 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /teɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "to operate a taser or electroshock stun gun, by using it against a subject".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tase, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from taser, from the trademark Taser, by reinterpretation as tase + -er. The correct English form is tase, spelled T-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1to operate a taser or electroshock stun gun, by using it against a subject
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If the funding for these new tasers is approved, the entire JCPD will have to be re-trained on the tasers, but luckily they won't all have to be tased again.
Etymology
Back-formation from taser, from the trademark Taser, by reinterpretation as tase + -er.
Synonyms
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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