teacher
tea·cher/ˈti.t͡ʃɚ/noun
teacher is spelled T-E-A-C-H-E-R, 2 syllables: tea·cher. The wrong spelling people search most is techer: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 94 of all searches for the word. Teacher is a noun meaning “A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor”. The plural of teacher is teachers.
How many letters and syllables are in teacher?
| Letters | 7: T-E-A-C-H-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: tea·cher |
| In writing | 76 times per million words; the 1,394th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, techer, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell teacher?
Teacher is spelled T-E-A-C-H-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 94 of the searches for teacher in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is teacher?
Teacher appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th 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 teacher?
- UK /ˈtiː.t͡ʃəː/
- UK [ˈtʰɪi̯.t͡ʃəː]
- US /ˈti.t͡ʃɚ/
Teacher has 2 syllables, split tea·cher in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-teacher.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-teacher.wav, En-us-teacher.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with teacher?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as teacher from its last stressed vowel (/itʃəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cheater, hectare, reteach.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of teacher
- teachers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does teacher mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
- 2
The index finger; the forefinger.
- 3
An indication; a lesson.
- 4
The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate teacher?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of teacher: tchr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Teacher in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | professeur, maître d'école, enseignant, instituteur |
| German | Lehrer, Lehrerin |
| Portuguese | professor, professora, docente , lição, ensino |
| Spanish | enseñador, enseñadora, enseñante |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does teacher come from?
From Middle English techere, equivalent to teach + -er. More at teach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).