teacher's pet
"teacher-s-pet" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teacher's pet” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A student who is perceived to be favored by the teacher.
Corpus desk
Index EN-teacher-s-pet · teacher's pet · English
teacher's pet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teacher's pet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “teacher's pet” in English
Rare enough to double-check
teacher's pet is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A student who is perceived to be favored by the teacher.".
Zero misspellings are on record for teacher's pet in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is teacher's pet, spelled T-E-A-C-H-E-R-'-S- -P-E-T.
Definition
- 1A student who is perceived to be favored by the teacher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teacher's pet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As an intelligent and conscientious student, he was often labelled as the teacher's pet in school.
Her friends are so jealous / You know how bad girls get / Sometimes it's not so easy / To be the teacher's pet.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.