tela
/ˈtiːlə/
"tela" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tela” is uncommon English (frequency #89,981 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,981
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A thin, web-like structure or membrane.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tela · tela · English
tela · rank #89,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,981
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tenzing
Nearest frequency peer: Tenzing (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “tela”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tallman
Tallman
10,027 corpus weight
- tanuki
tanuki
10,025 corpus weight
- targum
targum
10,024 corpus weight
- tela
tela
10,020 corpus weight
- Tenzing
Tenzing
10,018 corpus weight
- thallus
thallus
10,013 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tela” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tela |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtiːlə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tela” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tela is uncommon English at frequency #89,981 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtiːlə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A thin, web-like structure or membrane.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tela in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin tēla (“web”). Doublet of toile. The correct English form is tela, spelled T-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1A thin, web-like structure or membrane.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin tēla (“web”). Doublet of toile.
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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