Which to use
“team” is a noun and “Ted” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #203
- “team” frequency rank
- #4,636
- “Ted” frequency rank
- 4839
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | team | Ted |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund. |
Where the eye mixes team and Ted
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: team is /tiːm/ while Ted is /tɛd/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs name), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4839, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
team is recorded at frequency rank #203, classified as anoun, pronounced /tiːm/. Ted is at rank #4,636, tagged as aname, pronounced /tɛd/.
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 4839, this pair ranks #517,495 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of team vs Ted
Shared letters: et. Private to "team": am. Private to "Ted": d.
"team" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "Ted" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- team ← etam · taem · teamm · tema · tteam