Tashkent
/ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/
"tashkent" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tashkent” is uncommon English (frequency #52,669 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,669
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Uzbekistan.
| 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) |
Where “Tashkent” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tashkent is uncommon English at frequency #52,669 among 27,828 “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.
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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Using “Tashkent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-A-S-H-K-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.