teeth

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The English entry for teeth is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtiːθ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,600 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for teeth, with forms such as "eteth", "teeht", and "teethh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "teh", "tet", "test", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English teth, plural of tothe, from Old English tēþ, nominative plural of tōþ, from earlier *tœ̄þ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþiz, nominative plural of *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntes, nominative plural of *h₃dónts. 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 teeth, spelled T-E-E-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.