teammate
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "teammate", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "teammate" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "teammate" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
teammate is aEnglishnoun. It means: One who is on the same team. Pronounced /ˈtiːmˌmeɪt/. It ranks #9,113 in English word frequency.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teammate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtiːmˌmeɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for teammate is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtiːmˌmeɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,113 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "One who is on the same team.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for teammate, with forms such as "etammate", "taemmate", and "teamamte". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From team + -mate. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is teammate, spelled T-E-A-M-M-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1One who is on the same team.
Etymology
From team + -mate.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etammate,taemmate,teamamte,teamate,teammaet,teammatte,teammtae,temamate,tteammate
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for teammate
Misspelling Variants of "teammate"
Frequency rank: #9,113 in English
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