# tycoon

> English word · Noun · IPA /taɪˈkuːn/ · frequency rank #23,711

## Definitions
1. A wealthy and powerful business person.
2. A business simulator game, typically involving building and managing some form of infrastructure.
3. A game involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand. Common within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox.
4. The first placer of Tycoon.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon).

## Easily confused with
- **Tyson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tycoon-vs-tyson)
- **typhoon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tycoon-vs-typhoon)
- **toon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toon-vs-tycoon)
- **Tucson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tucson-vs-tycoon)

## Common misspellings (9)
`tcyoon`, `ttycoon`, `tyccoon`, `tycon`, `tycono`, `tycoonn`, `tyocon`, `tyycoon`, `ytcoon`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tycoon