team

/ti:m/

//ti:m// noun

The verdict

“team” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,238) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#6,238
frequency rank, Spanish
3,005
“T” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Equipo (grupo de personas).

Corpus desk

Index ES-team · team · Spanish

team · rank #6,238 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,238
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,005
  • PHOTO-FINISH tenías

Nearest frequency peer: tenías (+2 rank slots)

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.

Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “team”

Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo

corpus weight

What this shows Las barras sitúan “team” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

team vs ten
50% similar
team vs tía
50% similar
team vs tel
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for team
PropertyValue
Headwordteam
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ti:m/
Letters4
Frequency rank#6,238
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “team”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).teamcae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “tenías” (#6,240), “significativa” (#6,235), “tercio” (#6,241). Entre 3,005 lemas con “T”, “team” va en #6,238. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for team is neighbouring look-alikes ("ten", "tía", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ti:m/. Frequency #6,238 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Equipo (grupo de personas).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for team, with forms such as "etam", "taem", and "teamm". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ten", "tía", "tel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is team, spelled T-E-A-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Equipo (grupo de personas).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • etam
  • taem
  • teamm
  • tteam

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of team - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

etam2taem2teamm1tteam1
Edit distance from "team"

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "team"?
"team" is spelled T-E-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is /ti:m/.
What does "team" mean?
As a noun, "team" means: Equipo (grupo de personas).
What words are commonly confused with "team"?
"team" is commonly confused with "ten", "tía", "tel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "team"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "team" is /ti:m/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "team" come from?
"team" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "team", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list