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tikkun

/tiːˈkuːn/noun

tikkun is spelled T-I-K-K-U-N: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tikkun means “A night of (usually communal) Torah study” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tikkun is tikkunim.

How many letters and syllables are in tikkun?

Letters6: T-I-K-K-U-N
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is tikkun?

Tikkun appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce tikkun?

  • /tiːˈkuːn/
  • /tɪ-/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of tikkun

  • tikkunim plural
  • tikun

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tikkun mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A night of (usually communal) Torah study.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does tikkun come from?

Borrowed from Hebrew תִּקּוּן (tikún).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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