Tula
/ˈtuːlə/
"tula" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tula” is uncommon English (frequency #52,061 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,061
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Hidalgo, Mexico, near the remains of the Toltec city Tollan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tula · Tula · English
Tula · rank #52,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,061
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH troika
Nearest frequency peer: troika (-2 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 “Tula”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tripura
Tripura
47,943 corpus weight
- troika
troika
47,942 corpus weight
- Tula
Tula
47,940 corpus weight
- tunnelling
tunnelling
47,938 corpus weight
- turnoff
turnoff
47,936 corpus weight
- uncouth
uncouth
47,934 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tula” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tula |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈtuːlə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tula” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tula is uncommon English at frequency #52,061 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈtuːlə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Hidalgo, Mexico, near the remains of the Toltec city Tollan.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tula in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish Tula, from Classical Nahuatl Tōllān (“place of bulrushes”), from tōllin (“bulrush”) + -tlān. The correct English form is Tula, spelled T-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Hidalgo, Mexico, near the remains of the Toltec city Tollan.
Etymology
From Spanish Tula, from Classical Nahuatl Tōllān (“place of bulrushes”), from tōllin (“bulrush”) + -tlān.
This word in other languages
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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