teaspoonful
/ˈtiːspuːnfəl/
"teaspoonful" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teaspoonful” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
Corpus desk
Index EN-teaspoonful · teaspoonful · English
teaspoonful · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | teaspoonful |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtiːspuːnfəl/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “teaspoonful” in English
Rare enough to double-check
teaspoonful is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtiːspuːnfəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for teaspoonful in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From teaspoon + -ful. The correct English form is teaspoonful, spelled T-E-A-S-P-O-O-N-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teaspoonful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”
Etymology
From teaspoon + -ful.
Synonyms
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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.