Which to use
“team” and “teams” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #203
- “team” frequency rank
- #1,155
- “teams” frequency rank
- 1358
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | team | teams |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | plural of team |
Where the eye mixes team and teams
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. team (/tiːm/) and teams (/tiːmz/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “team” sits inside “teams”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1358, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
team is recorded at frequency rank #203, classified as anoun, pronounced /tiːm/. teams is at rank #1,155, tagged as anoun, pronounced /tiːmz/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 1358, this pair ranks #527,587 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of team vs teams
Shared letters: aemt. Private to "team": -. Private to "teams": s.
"team" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "teams" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC