tek
[tɛk]
The verdict
“tek” is uncommon German (frequency #83,374 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,374
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teakbaum (Tectona grandis)
Corpus desk
Index DE-tek · tek · German
tek · rank #83,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,374
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Taxonomie
Nearest frequency peer: Taxonomie (-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 „tek“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Talsperren
Talsperren
16,629 corpus weight
- Taxonomie
Taxonomie
16,628 corpus weight
- tek
tek
16,627 corpus weight
- tempore
tempore
16,626 corpus weight
- Teplitz
Teplitz
16,625 corpus weight
- thematischer
thematischer
16,624 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tek“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tek |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tɛk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tek“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tek is uncommon German at frequency #83,374 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [tɛk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Teakbaum (Tectona grandis)".
Zero misspellings are on record for tek in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is tek, spelled T-E-K.
Definition
- 1Teakbaum (Tectona grandis)
Synonyms
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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