tch
"tch" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tch” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,118) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,118
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a representation of the dental click used to show disapproval or disgust; tut, tsk
Corpus desk
Index EN-tch · tch · English
tch · rank #45,118 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,118
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tangy
Nearest frequency peer: tangy (-2 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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “tch”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Tacitus
Tacitus
54,887 corpus weight
- tambourine
tambourine
54,886 corpus weight
- tangy
tangy
54,885 corpus weight
- tch
tch
54,883 corpus weight
- tics
tics
54,879 corpus weight
- tilapia
tilapia
54,878 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “tch” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | tch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “tch”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tch is neighbouring look-alikes ("to", "TV", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #45,118 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Gloss: "a representation of the dental click used to show disapproval or disgust; tut, tsk".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tch, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "TV", "te", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is tch, spelled T-C-H.
Definition
- 1a representation of the dental click used to show disapproval or disgust; tut, tsk
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hellen Gravely: 'Tch! How could my staff be so incompetent?! There's no way Luigi should have gotten this far!'
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).