tench
/tɛnt͡ʃ/
"tench" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tench” is uncommon English (frequency #72,820 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,820
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tench · tench · English
tench · rank #72,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,820
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH telenovela
Nearest frequency peer: telenovela (-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 “tench”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tased
tased
27,186 corpus weight
- Tassie
Tassie
27,185 corpus weight
- tbl
tbl
27,184 corpus weight
- telenovela
telenovela
27,182 corpus weight
- tench
tench
27,181 corpus weight
- terrazzo
terrazzo
27,178 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tench” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tench |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɛnt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tench” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tench is uncommon English at frequency #72,820 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɛnt͡ʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tench, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca. The correct English form is tench, spelled T-E-N-C-H.
Definition
- 1A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.
Etymology
From Middle English tenche, from Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.
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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