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t

/tiː/letter, number, noun

t is spelled T: one letter and one syllable. It appears 269 times per million words in written English, the 356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a letter, t means “The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in t?

Letters1: T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing269 times per million words; the 356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is t?

T appears 269 times per million words in written English, the 356th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce t?

  • /tiː/
  • /t/
  • [tʰ]

T has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-t.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-'t.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with t

Sounds like: te, tea, tee, ti (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: tonne.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of t

  • ts plural
  • t's plural
  • t.
  • t’
  • ts. plural
  • ætat.
  • aet.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does t mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

letter

  1. 1

    The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

number

  1. 1

    The twentieth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

letter

as T
  1. 1

    The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

number

as T
  1. 1

    The twentieth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

adjective

as T
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of teen.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of taxable.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of twentieth, a book size range (12.5–15 cm in height).

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of transgender or transsexual.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of true.

noun

as T
  1. 1

    informalEllipsis of T-shirt.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of Tuesday.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of Thursday.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of tenor.

  5. 5

    Ellipsis of Model T.

  6. 6

    Abbreviation of trailer (“trailer car”).

  7. 7

    Abbreviation of ties (statistic).

  8. 8

    Abbreviation of technical foul.

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of time.

  2. 2

    Alternative letter-case form of T, ton.

  3. 3

    UKAlternative letter-case form of T, tonne.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of tomin.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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