Tegel
"tegel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tegel” is uncommon English (frequency #88,918 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,918
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A district of Reinickendorf borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tegel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tegel” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tegel is uncommon English at frequency #88,918 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Tegel, 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Tegel, from Low German Tygel. The correct English form is Tegel, spelled T-E-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1A district of Reinickendorf borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- 2Ellipsis of Lake Tegel: a lake in Tegel district, Reinickendorf borough, Berlin, Germany.
- 3Ellipsis of Berlin-Tegel: a former airport in Tegel district, Reinickendorf borough, Berlin, Germany.
- 4Ellipsis of Tegelort (= Tegel Village): a neighbourhood and former village in Konradshöhe district, Reinickendorf borough, Berlin, Germany.
- 5A historic region of Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany.
Etymology
From German Tegel, from Low German Tygel.
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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Using “Tegel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-G-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.