Thucydides
/θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz/
"thucydides" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Thucydides” is uncommon English (frequency #62,571 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,571
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A great ancient Greek historian (c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thucydides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Thucydides” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Thucydides is uncommon English at frequency #62,571 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A great ancient Greek historian (c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Thucydides, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Thūcȳdidēs, from Ancient Greek Θουκυδίδης (Thoukudídēs), from θεός (theós, “ruler, god”) + κῦδος (kûdos, “glory”) + -ῐ́δης (-ĭ́dēs, patronymic suffix). The correct English form is Thucydides, spelled T-H-U-C-Y-D-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1A great ancient Greek historian (c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.
Etymology
From Latin Thūcȳdidēs, from Ancient Greek Θουκυδίδης (Thoukudídēs), from θεός (theós, “ruler, god”) + κῦδος (kûdos, “glory”) + -ῐ́δης (-ĭ́dēs, patronymic suffix).
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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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- The one correct English spelling is T-H-U-C-Y-D-I-D-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.