# Tasmania

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /tæzˈmeɪniə/ · frequency rank #14,436

## Definitions
1. 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 to 1901. Capital: Hobart.
2. The large island of Australia comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.

## Etymology
From Tasman + -ia, after the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642.

## Easily confused with
- **Tasmanian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tasmania-vs-tasmanian)
- **Tasman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tasman-vs-tasmania)
- **Tanzania** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tanzania-vs-tasmania)

## Common misspellings (11)
`atsmania`, `tamsania`, `tasamnia`, `tasmaina`, `tasmanai`, `tasmannia`, `tasmmania`, `tasmnaia`, `tassmania`, `tsamania`, `ttasmania`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tasmania