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Tocharian

UK /təʊˈkɛəɹi.ən/adjective, noun

Tocharian is spelled T-O-C-H-A-R-I-A-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Tocharian means “Of or relating to the Tochari (people of Bactria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Tocharian?

Letters9: T-O-C-H-A-R-I-A-N
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is Tocharian?

Tocharian appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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 Tocharian?

  • UK /təʊˈkɛəɹi.ən/
  • UK /təʊˈkɑːɹi.ən/
  • /toʊˈkɛɹi.ən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Tocharian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with Tocharian?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Tocharian from its last stressed vowel (/ɛəɹiən/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of Tocharian

  • Toch.
  • Tokharian
  • Tocharians plural

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

What does Tocharian mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to the Tochari (people of Bactria).

  2. 2

    [from 20th c.] Of or pertaining to the Tocharian languages or the Tocharians of the Tarim Basin.

noun

  1. 1

    Any member of the Tochari, a people who inhabited Bactria.

  2. 2

    [from 20th c.] Any member of a people who inhabited the Tarim Basin and spoke the so-called Tocharian languages.

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

Tocharian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtocharien (of or relating to the Tochari (people of…), tokharien (of or relating to the Tocharian languages or…), Tochare (any member of the Tochari, a people who…)
Germantocharisch (of or relating to the Tocharian languages or…)
Portuguesetocariano, tocário (of or relating to the Tocharian languages or…)
Spanishtocario (of or relating to the Tocharian languages or…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Tocharian come from?

From Latin Tocharī + -ian, the first element deriving from Ancient Greek Τόχαροι (Tókharoi, “Tochari/Tukharas (an ancient people of Bactria)”), plural of Τόχαρος (Tókharos), probably from an Indo-Iranian source (Old Persian [script needed] (tuxāri-), Khotanese [script needed] (ttahvāra)); compare Sanskrit तुखार (tukhāra). When manuscripts in an unknown Indo-European language were discovered in the early 20th century in the Tarim Basin, scholars linked them to the Tochari/Tukharas mentioned in ancient sources. As a result, the language was called "Tocharian".

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

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