Tasmania
/tæzˈmeɪniə/
"tasmania" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tasmania” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,436. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,436
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast; a former British colony, from 1856 ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-tasmania · Tasmania · English
Tasmania · rank #14,436 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,436
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tasked
Nearest frequency peer: tasked (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Tasmania”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tad
tad
85,568 corpus weight
- tandem
tandem
85,567 corpus weight
- tasked
tasked
85,566 corpus weight
- Tasmania
Tasmania
85,565 corpus weight
- televised
televised
85,564 corpus weight
- tempered
tempered
85,563 corpus weight
What this shows “Tasmania” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tasmania |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tæzˈmeɪniə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Tasmania”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Tasmania (IPA /tæzˈmeɪniə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,436 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tasmania, with forms such as "atsmania", "tamsania", and "tasamnia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Tasmanian", "Tasman", "Tanzania", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tasman + -ia, after the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642. The correct English form is Tasmania, spelled T-A-S-M-A-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast; a former British colony, from 1856 to 1901. Capital: Hobart.
- 2The large island of Australia comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tasmania appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Osteoporosis Australia is calling for the 'no hat, no play' policy in school playgrounds to be reassessed in the ACT and Tasmania, because children are not getting enough sunlight.
Etymology
From Tasman + -ia, after the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atsmania
- tamsania
- tasamnia
- tasmaina
- tasmanai
- tasmannia
- tasmmania
- tasmnaia
- tassmania
- tsamania
- ttasmania
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tasmania - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tasmania", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).