Theodosius
"theodosius" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Theodosius” is uncommon English (frequency #58,411 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,411
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-theodosius · Theodosius · English
Theodosius · rank #58,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,411
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tempera
Nearest frequency peer: tempera (-2 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 “Theodosius”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- technocratic
technocratic
41,595 corpus weight
- Teigen
Teigen
41,594 corpus weight
- temerity
temerity
41,593 corpus weight
- tempera
tempera
41,592 corpus weight
- Theodosius
Theodosius
41,590 corpus weight
- tigress
tigress
41,587 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Theodosius” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Theodosius |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Theodosius” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Theodosius is uncommon English at frequency #58,411 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from Ancient Greek.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Theodosius, 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Theodosius, from Ancient Greek. The correct English form is Theodosius, spelled T-H-E-O-D-O-S-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Etymology
From Latin Theodosius, from Ancient Greek.
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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