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tet

noun, adjective

tet is spelled T-E-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tet means “Alternative form of teth (“Semitic letter”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tet is tets.

How many letters and syllables are in tet?

Letters3: T-E-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,565th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is tet?

Tet appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce tet?

  • US

Tet has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-tet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tet

  • tets plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tet mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of teth (“Semitic letter”).

  2. 2

    informalThe tetralogy of Fallot.

  3. 3

    informalA patient with tetralogy of Fallot.

  4. 4

    informalA tetraploid plant cultivar (iris, daylily etc.).

  5. 5

    A tetrahedron; a tetrahedral finite element.

  6. 6

    informalA tetra (freshwater fish).

  7. 7

    informalClipping of tetracycline.

  8. 8

    Clipping of tetradrachm.

  9. 9

    informalClipping of tetanus.

adjective

  1. 1

    Tetrahedral.

noun

as Tet
  1. 1

    An ancient Egyptian symbol of the god Osiris, in form a small pillar with a number of flat sections towards the top.

noun

as TET
  1. 1

    Initialism of tetraethyltin.

  2. 2

    Initialism of transparency-enhancing tool.

  3. 3

    Initialism of thymic epithelial tumor.

  4. 4

    Initialism of targeted energy transfer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does tet come from?

See teth.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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