tossup
"tossup" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tossup” is uncommon English (frequency #99,949 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,949
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of toss-up.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tossup · tossup · English
tossup · rank #99,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,949
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH touchback
Nearest frequency peer: touchback (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tossup”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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52 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “tossup” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tossup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tossup” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tossup is uncommon English at frequency #99,949 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of toss-up.".
tossup doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from toss up. The correct English form is tossup, spelled T-O-S-S-U-P.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of toss-up.
Etymology
Deverbal from toss up.
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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