# Turkmen

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈtɜːk.mən/ · frequency rank #40,938

## Definitions
1. A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.

## Etymology
The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.

## Easily confused with
- **turkey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turkey-vs-turkmen)

## Common misspellings (11)
`trukmen`, `tturkmen`, `tukrmen`, `turkemn`, `turkkmen`, `turkmenn`, `turkmmen`, `turkmne`, `turmken`, `turrkmen`, `utrkmen`

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