Tulare
"tulare" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tulare” is uncommon English (frequency #51,465 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,465
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city in Tulare County, California, United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tulare |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tulare” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tulare is uncommon English at frequency #51,465 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tulare in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish tule, itself from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“sedge, reed”). The correct English form is Tulare, spelled T-U-L-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1A city in Tulare County, California, United States.
- 2An ephemeral freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States.
- 3A small town in Spink County, South Dakota, United States.
- 4Synonym of Yokuts.
Etymology
From Spanish tule, itself from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“sedge, reed”).
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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Using “Tulare”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-U-L-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.