teambuilding
"teambuilding" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teambuilding” is uncommon English (frequency #99,927 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,927
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activities designed to improve the cohesion and performance of a team.
Corpus desk
Index EN-teambuilding · teambuilding · English
teambuilding · rank #99,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,927
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tartans
Nearest frequency peer: tartans (-1 rank slots)
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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 “teambuilding”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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75 corpus weight
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74 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “teambuilding” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teambuilding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #99,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “teambuilding” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
teambuilding is uncommon English at frequency #99,927 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Activities designed to improve the cohesion and performance of a team.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for teambuilding, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From team + building. The correct English form is teambuilding, spelled T-E-A-M-B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Activities designed to improve the cohesion and performance of a team.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teambuilding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Accounts department climbed a mountain together as a teambuilding exercise.
Etymology
From team + building.
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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