tee
/ˈtiː/noun, verb
tee is spelled T-E-E: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tee means “The name of the Latin script letter T/t” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tee is tees.
How many letters and syllables are in tee?
| Letters | 3: T-E-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is tee?
Tee appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tee?
- /ˈtiː/
Tee has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tee.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tee
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: te, tea, ti (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of tee
- tees plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- teeing participle, present
- teed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tee mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The name of the Latin script letter T/t.
ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".
- 2
Something shaped like the letter T.
angles and tees
- 3
informalEllipsis of tee-shirt.
Brendan pulled a black tee over his head.
- 4
The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.
- 5
A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
- 6
A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
- 7
The target area of a curling rink.
- 8
The mark at which players aim in quoits.
- 9
A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.
verb
- 1
To redirect output to multiple destinations.
- 2
To place a ball on a tee
- 3
obsoleteTo teach, educate, train, bring up.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of tee.
noun
- 1
CanadaUSInitialism of transesophageal echocardiogram.
- 2
Initialism of thromboembolic event.
- 3
Initialism of term end examination.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.