# tung

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #24,619

## Definitions
1. Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.

## Etymology
From Middle English tonge, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”); along with Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

## Easily confused with
- **tut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tut)
- **tux** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tux)
- **tur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tur)
- **turn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-turn)
- **turf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-turf)
- **Turk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-turk)
- **Tyne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tyne)
- **turd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-turd)
- **twig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-twig)
- **tutu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tutu)
- **tusk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tusk)
- **turns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-turns)
- **tying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tying)
- **tunic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tunic)
- **Tunis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tunis)
- **twang** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-twang)
- **tuning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-tuning)
- **Turing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tung-vs-turing)
- **Tu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tu-vs-tung)
- **TN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tn-vs-tung)

## Common misspellings (6)
`tnug`, `ttung`, `tugn`, `tungg`, `tunng`, `utng`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tung