Tashkent
/ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/
"tashkent" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tashkent” is uncommon English (frequency #52,669 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,669
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Uzbekistan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tashkent · Tashkent · English
Tashkent · rank #52,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,669
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH terns
Nearest frequency peer: terns (+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 “Tashkent”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tadpole
tadpole
47,336 corpus weight
- Takei
Takei
47,335 corpus weight
- Tashkent
Tashkent
47,332 corpus weight
- terns
terns
47,331 corpus weight
- terr
terr
47,330 corpus weight
- Terran
Terran
47,329 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tashkent” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tashkent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tashkent” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tashkent is uncommon English at frequency #52,669 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Uzbekistan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tashkent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), compound of tosh (“stone”) + Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city”) (compare Turkish kent), the latter borrowed from Sogdian [Term?] (/kand/, “city”). The correct English form is Tashkent, spelled T-A-S-H-K-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Uzbekistan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tashkent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Uzbek opera house and the Uzbek dramatic theater, both in Tashkent, are of recent origin and arose under Soviet influence.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), compound of tosh (“stone”) + Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city”) (compare Turkish kent), the latter borrowed from Sogdian [Term?] (/kand/, “city”).
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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