tympanic
/tɪmˈpæn.ɪk/
"tympanic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tympanic” is uncommon English (frequency #84,851 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,851
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, relating to, or resembling a drum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tympanic · tympanic · English
tympanic · rank #84,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,851
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tybalt
Nearest frequency peer: Tybalt (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “tympanic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tybalt
Tybalt
15,151 corpus weight
- tympanic
tympanic
15,150 corpus weight
- Tyrian
Tyrian
15,149 corpus weight
- Tyrwhitt
Tyrwhitt
15,148 corpus weight
- Uman
Uman
15,146 corpus weight
- Umatilla
Umatilla
15,144 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tympanic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tympanic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tɪmˈpæn.ɪk/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tympanic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tympanic is uncommon English at frequency #84,851 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /tɪmˈpæn.ɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tympanic in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tympanum + -ic. The correct English form is tympanic, spelled T-Y-M-P-A-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, relating to, or resembling a drum.
- 2Relating to the tympanum, eardrum or middle ear.
- 3Resonant.
Etymology
From tympanum + -ic.
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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