tsun
"tsun" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tsun” is uncommon English (frequency #80,061 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,061
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dated form of cun (“Chinese unit of length”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-tsun · tsun · English
tsun · rank #80,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,061
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tsao
Nearest frequency peer: Tsao (-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 “tsun”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Trejo
Trejo
19,946 corpus weight
- trialling
trialling
19,944 corpus weight
- Tsao
Tsao
19,941 corpus weight
- tsun
tsun
19,940 corpus weight
- tsundere
tsundere
19,939 corpus weight
- tule
tule
19,938 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tsun” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tsun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tsun” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tsun is uncommon English at frequency #80,061 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dated form of cun (“Chinese unit of length”).".
No misspelling variants are generated for tsun in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is tsun, spelled T-S-U-N.
Definition
- 1Dated form of cun (“Chinese unit of length”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tsun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
While successfully locating points ultimately depends on the practitioner's sensitivity to energy, a beginning Amma therapist will necessarily rely on anatomical landmarks and the traditional measurement of a tsun in order to determine point location.
10 fans make 1 tsun 10 tsuns " 1 chik or covid […]
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.