tux
/tʌks/
"tux" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tux” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,996) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,996
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of tuxedo
Corpus desk
Index EN-tux · tux · English
tux · rank #35,996 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,996
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tropic
Nearest frequency peer: tropic (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “tux”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- trample
trample
64,009 corpus weight
- tropic
tropic
64,006 corpus weight
- tux
tux
64,005 corpus weight
- uncomplicat…
uncomplicated
64,004 corpus weight
- unconnected
unconnected
64,003 corpus weight
- underweight
underweight
64,002 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “tux” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tux |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tʌks/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “tux”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tux is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "TX", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tʌks/. Frequency #35,996 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Clipping of tuxedo".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "TX", "Ty", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is tux, spelled T-U-X.
Definition
- 1Clipping of tuxedo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash,…
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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