tunica
noun
tunica is spelled T-U-N-I-C-A: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tunica means “Synonym of tunic (“garment”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tunica is tunicae or tunicas.
How many letters and syllables are in tunica?
| Letters | 6: T-U-N-I-C-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 60,074th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tunica?
Tunica appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tunica?
Tunica has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with tunica?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tunica.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nautic, anicut.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tunica
- tunicae plural
- tunicas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tunica mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Synonym of tunic (“garment”).
- 2
Synonym of tunic (“covering”).
noun
- 1
An extinct group of linguistically and culturally related Native American tribes in the Mississippi River Valley.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tunica come from?
From Latin tunica. Doublet of tunic and maybe distantly related to chiton.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).