# thigh

> English word · Noun · IPA /θaɪ/ · frequency rank #10,781

## Definitions
1. The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
2. That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.

## Etymology
From Middle English thigh, thegh, thiȝ, theȝhe, þigh, þyȝh, from Old English þēoh, þīoh, from Proto-West Germanic *þeuh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. See also West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó; also Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”).

## Easily confused with
- **tig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-tig)
- **this** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-this)
- **thin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-thin)
- **thug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-thug)
- **twig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-twig)
- **trig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-trig)
- **think** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-think)
- **thing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-thing)
- **third** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-third)
- **tough** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-tough)
- **tight** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-tight)
- **thine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-thine)
- **Trish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-trish)
- **things** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-things)
- **though** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-though)
- **thingy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thigh-vs-thingy)
- **Thi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thi-vs-thigh)
- **thick** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thick-vs-thigh)
- **thief** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thief-vs-thigh)
- **Thier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thier-vs-thigh)

## Common misspellings (8)
`htigh`, `thgih`, `thhigh`, `thiggh`, `thighh`, `thihg`, `tihgh`, `tthigh`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/thigh