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taua

noun

taua is spelled T-A-U-A: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, taua means “A group of Maori warriors sent out as a war party” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of taua is tauas.

How many letters and syllables are in taua?

Letters4: T-A-U-A
In writingabout once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is taua?

Taua appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).

What rhymes with taua?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as taua.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: atua.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of taua

  • tauas plural

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

What does taua mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A group of Maori warriors sent out as a war party.

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

Where does taua come from?

From Māori tauā.

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

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