Tegucigalpa
/təˌɡuːsəˈɡælpə/
"tegucigalpa" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tegucigalpa” is uncommon English (frequency #67,886 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,886
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Honduras.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tegucigalpa · Tegucigalpa · English
Tegucigalpa · rank #67,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,886
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Teck
Nearest frequency peer: Teck (-1 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Tegucigalpa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- taffeta
taffeta
32,121 corpus weight
- tapir
tapir
32,119 corpus weight
- Tapp
Tapp
32,118 corpus weight
- Teck
Teck
32,116 corpus weight
- Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa
32,115 corpus weight
- Teheran
Teheran
32,114 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tegucigalpa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tegucigalpa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /təˌɡuːsəˈɡælpə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tegucigalpa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tegucigalpa is uncommon English at frequency #67,886 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /təˌɡuːsəˈɡælpə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Honduras.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tegucigalpa, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl. The correct English form is Tegucigalpa, spelled T-E-G-U-C-I-G-A-L-P-A.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Honduras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tegucigalpa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).