teen
/tiːn/
"teen" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,127) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,127
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
Corpus desk
Index EN-teen · teen · English
teen · rank #4,127 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,127
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH substantial
Nearest frequency peer: substantial (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “teen”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- stats
stats
95,877 corpus weight
- struggling
struggling
95,876 corpus weight
- substantial
substantial
95,875 corpus weight
- teen
teen
95,874 corpus weight
- transmission
transmission
95,872 corpus weight
- trap
trap
95,871 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “teen” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tiːn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “teen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for teen is neighbouring look-alikes ("TN", "the", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tiːn/. Frequency #4,127 among 3,151 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for teen, with forms such as "eten", "teenn", and "tene". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TN", "the", "ten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager. The correct English form is teen, spelled T-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
- 2A black teenager or a young black person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving.
Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...
Etymology
Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eten
- teenn
- tene
- tteen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of teen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "teen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).