tosa
"tosa" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tosa” is uncommon English (frequency #86,862 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,862
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Japanese breed of fighting dog
Corpus desk
Index EN-tosa · tosa · English
tosa · rank #86,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,862
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tortious
Nearest frequency peer: tortious (-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 “tosa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tibbetts
Tibbetts
13,149 corpus weight
- ticky
ticky
13,148 corpus weight
- toiletry
toiletry
13,143 corpus weight
- tortious
tortious
13,140 corpus weight
- tosa
tosa
13,139 corpus weight
- tribble
tribble
13,130 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tosa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tosa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tosa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tosa is uncommon English at frequency #86,862 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Japanese breed of fighting dog".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tosa, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 土佐 (Tosa), according to the former Tosa province on the island of Shikoku where the dog was originally bred. The correct English form is tosa, spelled T-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1A Japanese breed of fighting dog
Etymology
From Japanese 土佐 (Tosa), according to the former Tosa province on the island of Shikoku where the dog was originally bred.
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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