Tobruk
/təˈbɹʊk/
"tobruk" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tobruk” is uncommon English (frequency #52,680 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,680
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and port on the Mediterranean in eastern Libya.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tobruk · Tobruk · English
Tobruk · rank #52,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,680
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH TMA
Nearest frequency peer: TMA (-1 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 “Tobruk”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tirana
Tirana
47,325 corpus weight
- Tiwari
Tiwari
47,323 corpus weight
- TMA
TMA
47,322 corpus weight
- Tobruk
Tobruk
47,321 corpus weight
- transmembra…
transmembrane
47,318 corpus weight
- travail
travail
47,317 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tobruk” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tobruk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /təˈbɹʊk/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tobruk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tobruk is uncommon English at frequency #52,680 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /təˈbɹʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and port on the Mediterranean in eastern Libya.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tobruk, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic طُبْرُق (ṭubruq). The correct English form is Tobruk, spelled T-O-B-R-U-K.
Definition
- 1A city and port on the Mediterranean in eastern Libya.
Etymology
From Arabic طُبْرُق (ṭubruq).
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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