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tass

/tæs/noun

tass is spelled T-A-S-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tass means “A cup or cupful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tass is tasses.

How many letters and syllables are in tass?

Letters4: T-A-S-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is tass?

Tass appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce tass?

  • /tæs/

Tass has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Words people confuse with tass

Also written: tas.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of tass

  • tasses plural
  • tas
  • tasse
  • tash

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tass mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandA cup or cupful.

  2. 2

    Synonym of tasse.

  3. 3

    An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread.

  4. 4

    obsoleterareA heap, pile.

noun

as TASs
  1. 1

    plural of TAS (a form of TAS)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does tass come from?

From Middle English *tasse, from Old French tasse (Modern French tasse (“cup, cupful”)). Cognate with Dutch tas (“cup”), German Tasse (“mug”). Doublet of tazza.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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