Teotihuacan
/ˈteɪ.oʊˌti.wɑˈkɑn/
"teotihuacan" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Teotihuacan” is uncommon English (frequency #82,848 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,848
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A vast archeological site in Mexico
Corpus desk
Index EN-teotihuacan · Teotihuacan · English
Teotihuacan · rank #82,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,848
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tendonitis
Nearest frequency peer: tendonitis (-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 “Teotihuacan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- telepath
telepath
17,156 corpus weight
- tendonitis
tendonitis
17,154 corpus weight
- Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan
17,153 corpus weight
- terrorise
terrorise
17,152 corpus weight
- testator
testator
17,151 corpus weight
- throwed
throwed
17,149 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Teotihuacan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Teotihuacan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Teotihuacan is uncommon English at frequency #82,848 among 3,151 “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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