tbh
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "tbh", 3-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "tbh" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "tbh" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
TBH is aEnglishphrase. It means: Initialism of to be honest. It ranks #5,373 in English word frequency. Often confused with to and TV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | TBH |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for TBH is 3 letters long, classified as aphrase. Corpus data places it at rank #5,373 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for TBH in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "TV", "te", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is TBH, spelled T-B-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Initialism of to be honest.
- 2Initialism of to be hired.
- 3Initialism of to be had (“sexually available”).
Frequency rank: #5,373 in English
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