tefach

noun

"tefach" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“tefach” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A biblical unit of measure, the palm or handbreadth.

Corpus desk

Index EN-tefach · tefach · English

tefach · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "T" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for tefach
PropertyValue
Headwordtefach
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “tefach” in English

tefachranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tefach is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A biblical unit of measure, the palm or handbreadth.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tefach, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew טפח. The correct English form is tefach, spelled T-E-F-A-C-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    A biblical unit of measure, the palm or handbreadth.

Etymology

From Hebrew טפח.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tefach"?
"tefach" is spelled T-E-F-A-C-H.
What does "tefach" mean?
As a noun, "tefach" means: A biblical unit of measure, the palm or handbreadth.
What is the origin of the word "tefach"?
From Hebrew טפח. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list