Teotihuacan
/ˈteɪ.oʊˌti.wɑˈkɑn/
"teotihuacan" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Teotihuacan” is uncommon English (frequency #82,848 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,848
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A vast archeological site in Mexico
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teotihuacan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈteɪ.oʊˌti.wɑˈkɑn/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Teotihuacan” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Teotihuacan is uncommon English at frequency #82,848 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈteɪ.oʊˌti.wɑˈkɑn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A vast archeological site in Mexico".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Teotihuacan in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish Teotihuacán, from Nahuatl Teōtīhuacān possibly from teōtī(uhtli) (elder god) + -huah (owner/possessor of something) + -cān (place of) meaning “At the place of the owners of the elder gods,” per J. R. Andrews’ “Introduction to Classical Nahuatl”. The correct English form is Teotihuacan, spelled T-E-O-T-I-H-U-A-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1A vast archeological site in Mexico
Etymology
From Spanish Teotihuacán, from Nahuatl Teōtīhuacān possibly from teōtī(uhtli) (elder god) + -huah (owner/possessor of something) + -cān (place of) meaning “At the place of the owners of the elder gods,” per J. R. Andrews’ “Introduction to 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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Using “Teotihuacan”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-E-O-T-I-H-U-A-C-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.