teacher
\ˈti.tʃɚ\
The verdict
“teacher” is uncommon French (frequency #57,637 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,637
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Professeur·e, enseignant·e, instituteur·ice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teacher · teacher · French
teacher · rank #57,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,637
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tchin
Nearest frequency peer: tchin (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « teacher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taxant
taxant
42,367 corpus weight
- taz
taz
42,366 corpus weight
- tchin
tchin
42,365 corpus weight
- teacher
teacher
42,364 corpus weight
- tempéraments
tempéraments
42,363 corpus weight
- tenancier
tenancier
42,362 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « teacher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teacher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈti.tʃɚ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « teacher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
teacher is uncommon French at frequency #57,637 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈti.tʃɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Professeur·e, enseignant·e, instituteur·ice.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for teacher, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is teacher, spelled T-E-A-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Professeur·e, enseignant·e, instituteur·ice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teacher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Monsieur, I am not a skilful teacher, it is true, but practice improves; besides, I work under difficulties; here I only teach sewing, […]”
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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