teatime

noun

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"teatime" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“teatime” is uncommon English (frequency #63,301 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,301
frequency rank, English
3,151
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).

Corpus desk

Index EN-teatime · teatime · English

teatime · rank #63,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,301
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,151
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tatooine

Nearest frequency peer: Tatooine (-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.

Long-tail ranks near “teatime”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “teatime” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for teatime
PropertyValue
Headwordteatime
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#63,301
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “teatime” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).teatimefalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Tatooine” (#63,300), “telekinetic” (#63,302), “taskbar” (#63,299). Among 3,151 “T” headwords, “teatime” is #63,301. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

teatime is uncommon English at frequency #63,301 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for teatime, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From tea + time. Compare Saterland Frisian Teetied (“teatime”), West Frisian teetiid (“teatime”), Dutch theetijd (“teatime”), German Teezeit (“teatime”), Danish tetid (“teatime”), Swedish tetid (“teatime”), Icelandic tetími (“teatime”). The correct English form is teatime, spelled T-E-A-T-I-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how teatime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it…

Etymology

From tea + time. Compare Saterland Frisian Teetied (“teatime”), West Frisian teetiid (“teatime”), Dutch theetijd (“teatime”), German Teezeit (“teatime”), Danish tetid (“teatime”), Swedish tetid (“teatime”), Icelandic tetími (“teatime”).

This word in other languages

Vesperbrot(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "teatime"?
"teatime" is spelled T-E-A-T-I-M-E.
What does "teatime" mean?
As a noun, "teatime" means: The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).
What is the origin of the word "teatime"?
From tea + time. Compare Saterland Frisian Teetied (“teatime”), West Frisian teetiid (“teatime”), Dutch theetijd (“teatime”), German Teezeit (“teatime”), Danish tetid (“teatime”), Swedish tetid (“teatime”), Icelandic tetími (“teatime”). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "teatime", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

taskbar#63,299tartare#63,298tillage#63,309timidly#63,310

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list