Theban year
"theban-year" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Theban year” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - The ancient Egyptian year of 365 days and six hours.
Corpus desk
Index EN-theban-year · Theban year · English
Theban year · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Theban year |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Theban year” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Theban year is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The ancient Egyptian year of 365 days and six hours.".
Theban year doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Theban year, spelled T-H-E-B-A-N- -Y-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1The ancient Egyptian year of 365 days and six hours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Theban year appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1774-1776, Jacob Bryant, A New System or Analysis of Ancient Mythology They had another year in Upper Egypt, which was heliacal, and styled the Theban. This consisted of three hundred sixty-five days, and six hours.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.