teckel
[tekɛl]
The verdict
“teckel” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleiner Hund, der traditionell zur Jagd eingesetzt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-teckel · teckel · German
teckel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teckel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tekɛl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „teckel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
teckel is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [tekɛl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleiner Hund, der traditionell zur Jagd eingesetzt wird".
teckel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is teckel, spelled T-E-C-K-E-L.
Definition
- 1kleiner Hund, der traditionell zur Jagd eingesetzt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teckel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma marraine a un teckel.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.