tha
/ða/
"tha" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tha” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,696) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,696
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of thou.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tha · tha · English
tha · rank #12,696 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,696
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH termed
Nearest frequency peer: termed (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “tha”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- tally
tally
87,308 corpus weight
- Tehran
Tehran
87,307 corpus weight
- termed
termed
87,306 corpus weight
- tha
tha
87,305 corpus weight
- thriving
thriving
87,304 corpus weight
- TM
TM
87,302 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “tha” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ða/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “tha”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tha is neighbouring look-alikes ("to", "TV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ða/. Frequency #12,696 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of thou.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tha, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "TV", "TL", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou. The correct English form is tha, spelled T-H-A.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of thou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"[…] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?"
Etymology
In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou.
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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