thaler
/ˈtɑːləɹ/
"thaler" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thaler” is uncommon English (frequency #69,505 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,505
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thaler |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɑːləɹ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “thaler” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
thaler is uncommon English at frequency #69,505 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɑːləɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for thaler in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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: Borrowed from German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. Doublet of dollar and tolar. The correct English form is thaler, spelled T-H-A-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
- 2The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. Doublet of dollar and tolar.
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 “thaler”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-H-A-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.