tercentenary
"tercentenary" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tercentenary” is uncommon English (frequency #93,229 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,229
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of tricentennial (“a 300th anniversary”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-tercentenary · tercentenary · English
tercentenary · rank #93,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,229
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tennent
Nearest frequency peer: Tennent (-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 “tercentenary”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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telework
6,776 corpus weight
- temporality
temporality
6,775 corpus weight
- temporomand…
temporomandibular
6,774 corpus weight
- Tennent
Tennent
6,773 corpus weight
- tercentenary
tercentenary
6,772 corpus weight
- thema
thema
6,769 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tercentenary” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tercentenary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tercentenary” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tercentenary is uncommon English at frequency #93,229 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of tricentennial (“a 300th anniversary”).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tercentenary, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ter- + centenary, after Latin ter centēnī (“three hundred each”). The correct English form is tercentenary, spelled T-E-R-C-E-N-T-E-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Synonym of tricentennial (“a 300th anniversary”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tercentenary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adventures and romance only take on their adventurous and romantic qualities at second-hand. Live them, and they are just a slice of life like the rest. In literature they become as charming as this dismal ball would be if we were celebrating its tercentenary.
Etymology
From ter- + centenary, after Latin ter centēnī (“three hundred each”).
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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