Tom cat
"tom-cat" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tom cat” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic form of tomcat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tom-cat · Tom cat · English
Tom cat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tom cat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tom cat” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tom cat is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archaic form of tomcat.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tom cat, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Tom cat, spelled T-O-M- -C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Archaic form of tomcat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tom cat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was but one a real maid, / And ſhe ſo very ugly, that / You’d take her for a great Tom cat, / And therefore ſhe could never hire / A man that would attempt to try her.
“How you talk!” / “Talk, miss! It’s enough to make a Tom cat talk French grammar, only to see how she tosses her head,” replied the handmaid.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.