teach
[tiːt͡ʃ]
The verdict
“teach” is uncommon German (frequency #58,347 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,347
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unterrichten; lehren; belehren; beibringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-teach · teach · German
teach · rank #58,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,347
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Teddybären
Nearest frequency peer: Teddybären (+1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „teach“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- süchtige
süchtige
41,657 corpus weight
- teach
teach
41,654 corpus weight
- Teddybären
Teddybären
41,653 corpus weight
- teilweiser
teilweiser
41,651 corpus weight
- Telepathie
Telepathie
41,650 corpus weight
- Tempora
Tempora
41,649 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „teach“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teach |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [tiːt͡ʃ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „teach“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
teach is uncommon German at frequency #58,347 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [tiːt͡ʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unterrichten; lehren; belehren; beibringen".
No misspelling variants are generated for teach in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is teach, spelled T-E-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1unterrichten; lehren; belehren; beibringen
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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