teabag
/ˈtiːbæɡ/
"teabag" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teabag” is uncommon English (frequency #80,950 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,950
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cloth or paper sachet containing tea leaves or herbal tea, designed to act as an infuser when submerged in hot water.
Corpus desk
Index EN-teabag · teabag · English
teabag · rank #80,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,950
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH teleological
Nearest frequency peer: teleological (+3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “teabag”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tagger
tagger
19,058 corpus weight
- Taichung
Taichung
19,057 corpus weight
- teabag
teabag
19,051 corpus weight
- teleological
teleological
19,048 corpus weight
- theologies
theologies
19,045 corpus weight
- tickler
tickler
19,041 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “teabag” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teabag |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtiːbæɡ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “teabag” in English
Rare enough to double-check
teabag is uncommon English at frequency #80,950 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtiːbæɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cloth or paper sachet containing tea leaves or herbal tea, designed to act as an infuser when submerged in hot water.".
No misspelling variants are generated for teabag in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tea + bag. The correct English form is teabag, spelled T-E-A-B-A-G.
Definition
- 1A cloth or paper sachet containing tea leaves or herbal tea, designed to act as an infuser when submerged in hot water.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teabag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He put a spoon and teabag on the saucer and placed it before Mr. McManus.
Etymology
From tea + bag.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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