Why is king tut the only pharaoh we call king?

Question

I was thinking about this and I cant find anything on it. We dont refer to any other pharaoh as king or queen so and so. Why him?

Answer 1

When Pharaoh at that time was black man and they rule the world but........that word Pharaoh mean king and at that time they called it

There was more than one Pharaoh.

Answer 2

The word "Pharaoh" originally meant "Great House" and referred only to the king's palace, but the meaning loosened over the course of Egyptian history until it came to be interchangeable with the Egyptian word for king.*  

The earliest instance of using the word "Pharaoh" to address the King appears in a letter to Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) in the Mid-Eighteenth Century Dynasty (1550-1296 BCE).  Akhenaten was the father of Tutankhamen, more commonly known as King Tut.  From the 19th dynasty onward, Egyptian documents routinely refer to the Egyptian king as "Pharaoh".

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*This is an example of metonymy--a figure of speech where a particular attribute of a person or thing stands for the whole.  To cite a contemporary example, "the Crown" often means the reigning king [or queen] rather than that jewel-encrusted headdress wore at coronations.

Answer 3

When the tomb was discovered it made news worldwide, the term Pharaoh was too obscure for common recognition at the time and Tutankhamun wouldn't fit in a headline, so "King Tut" was how he was reported and the name has stuck.  As to your second statement, have you never heard of "Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile"?

Answer 4

there were more kings and queens in egypt than just tut

more like cleopatra or hatcheput or any other

Answer 5

I don't think the ancient Egyptians called him king.

that moniker came later, and probably from western culture and the curse of the mummy stories.

Answer 6

Because we couldn't pronounce Tutenkamen

Answer 7

It's just a familiar,affectionate nickname. It goes with the diminutive of the name "Tut" for Tutankhamen because people could not pronounce his name. And,Tutankhamen,the "Boy King" was all the rage when the tomb and treasures were unveiled to the world.Mant people have the habit of giving nicknames to famous people like J-Lo,Tom-Kat and so on.

Answer 8

Because who wants to call him "Pharoah Tut" ? Sounds like some old lady who watche syou on weekends when the daycare is closed...."Hi Pharaoh Tut! What are we doing today???'