team
/tiːm/
"team" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“team” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #203
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-team · team · English
team · rank #203 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #203
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,828
- PHOTO-FINISH sure
Nearest frequency peer: sure (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “team”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- big
big
99,801 corpus weight
- feel
feel
99,800 corpus weight
- sure
sure
99,799 corpus weight
- team
team
99,798 corpus weight
- ever
ever
99,797 corpus weight
- family
family
99,796 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “team” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | team |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tiːm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “team” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around team (IPA /tiːm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #203 among 27,828 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for team, with forms such as "etam", "taem", and "teamm". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TM", "ten", "tom", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuh… The correct English form is team, spelled T-E-A-M.
Definition
- 1A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
- 2Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
- 3A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
- 4A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
- 5A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how team appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
Etymology
From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etam
- taem
- teamm
- tema
- tteam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of team - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "team", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.