Tycho
/ˈtaɪ.kəʊ/
"tycho" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tycho” is uncommon English (frequency #53,316 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,316
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tycho Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tycho |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈtaɪ.kəʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tycho” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tycho is uncommon English at frequency #53,316 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈtaɪ.kəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tycho Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tycho in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Tycho, spelled T-Y-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Tycho Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer
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 “Tycho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-Y-C-H-O - 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.