Tiamat
"tiamat" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tiamat” is uncommon English (frequency #61,158 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,158
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tiamat · Tiamat · English
Tiamat · rank #61,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,158
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Timmins
Nearest frequency peer: Timmins (+1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Tiamat”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- TGV
TGV
38,847 corpus weight
- Thoth
Thoth
38,845 corpus weight
- Tiamat
Tiamat
38,843 corpus weight
- Timmins
Timmins
38,842 corpus weight
- tinny
tinny
38,841 corpus weight
- tita
tita
38,840 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Tiamat” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tiamat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tiamat” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tiamat is uncommon English at frequency #61,158 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Tiamat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (tiāmtum, “sea; a deity”), from Proto-Semitic *tihām- (“sea”). The correct English form is Tiamat, spelled T-I-A-M-A-T.
Definition
- 1A Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
- 2A supposed planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tiamat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sitchin also tells us Mummu was the planet Mercury - "One Who Was Born," and that Tiamat was an earlier Earth.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (tiāmtum, “sea; a deity”), from Proto-Semitic *tihām- (“sea”).
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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