Tutankhamun
/ˌtu.tɑŋˈkɑ.mən/
"tutankhamun" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tutankhamun” is uncommon English (frequency #69,537 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,537
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancient Egyptian pharaoh known for his young age and his tomb, which was preserved intact to the modern age.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tutankhamun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌtu.tɑŋˈkɑ.mən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tutankhamun” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tutankhamun is uncommon English at frequency #69,537 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌtu.tɑŋˈkɑ.mən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancient Egyptian pharaoh known for his young age and his tomb, which was preserved intact to the modern age.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tutankhamun, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Egyptian i-mn:n-t-w&t-anx (twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn, literally “Living Image of Amun”). The variant spellings of the final vowel are taken from variant forms of the name of the god Amun as found in various different sources: u from Coptic ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ (amoun), o … The correct English form is Tutankhamun, spelled T-U-T-A-N-K-H-A-M-U-N.
Definition
- 1Ancient Egyptian pharaoh known for his young age and his tomb, which was preserved intact to the modern age.
Etymology
Borrowed from Egyptian i-mn:n-t-w&t-anx (twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn, literally “Living Image of Amun”). The variant spellings of the final vowel are taken from variant forms of the name of the god Amun as found in various different sources: u from Coptic ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ (amoun), o from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων (Ámmōn), and e from the purely conventional system of Egyptological pronunciation.
This word in other languages
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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- The one correct English spelling is T-U-T-A-N-K-H-A-M-U-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.