Which to use
“team” is a noun and “teh” is an article - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #203
- “team” frequency rank
- #27,676
- “teh” frequency rank
- 27879
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | team | teh |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic, or facetious effect. |
Where the eye mixes team and teh
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 teh is /tɛ/. 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 article), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27879, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
team is recorded at frequency rank #203, classified as anoun, pronounced /tiːm/. teh is at rank #27,676, tagged as anarticle, pronounced /tɛ/.
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 27879, this pair ranks #375,376 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of team vs teh
Shared letters: et. Private to "team": am. Private to "teh": h.
"team" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "teh" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- team ← etam · taem · teamm · tema · tteam