tha
/ða/pronoun, article
tha is spelled T-H-A: 3 letters. It appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a pronoun, tha means “Pronunciation spelling of thou” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tha?
| Letters | 3: T-H-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | 4.2 times per million words; the 12,578th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tha?
Tha appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tha?
- /ða/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with tha
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: the.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with tha?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tha.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: hat.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does tha mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
Pronunciation spelling of thou.
noun
- 1
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article
- 1
USEye dialect spelling of the.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tha come from?
In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).