Tuscaloosa
/tʌskəˈluːsə/
"tuscaloosa" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tuscaloosa” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,731
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tuscaloosa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tʌskəˈluːsə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tuscaloosa” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Tuscaloosa (IPA /tʌskəˈluːsə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,731 among 27,828 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A city, the county seat of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tuscaloosa, with forms such as "tsucaloosa", "ttuscaloosa", and "tucsaloosa". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after Tuskaloosa, a chief. The correct English form is Tuscaloosa, spelled T-U-S-C-A-L-O-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.
Etymology
Named after Tuskaloosa, a chief.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tsucaloosa
- ttuscaloosa
- tucsaloosa
- tusacloosa
- tuscalloosa
- tuscalooas
- tuscaloossa
- tuscalosa
- tuscalosoa
- tuscaolosa
- tusccaloosa
- tusclaoosa
- tusscaloosa
- utscaloosa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tuscaloosa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Tuscaloosa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-U-S-C-A-L-O-O-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tʌskəˈluːsə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.