Tuzla
"tuzla" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tuzla” is uncommon English (frequency #86,878 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,878
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the northeastern part of the country.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tuzla |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tuzla” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tuzla is uncommon English at frequency #86,878 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the northeastern part of the country.".
Tuzla has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Serbo-Croatian Tuzla/Тузла, from Ottoman Turkish طوزله (Tuzla), from طوز (tuz, “salt”). The correct English form is Tuzla, spelled T-U-Z-L-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the northeastern part of the country.
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian Tuzla/Тузла, from Ottoman Turkish طوزله (Tuzla), from طوز (tuz, “salt”).
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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Using “Tuzla”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-U-Z-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.