teaching
\ˈtiː.t͡ʃɪŋ\
The verdict
“teaching” is uncommon French (frequency #67,157 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,157
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe teach.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teaching · teaching · French
teaching · rank #67,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tanto
Nearest frequency peer: tanto (-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 « teaching »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tanin
tanin
32,846 corpus weight
- tanto
tanto
32,845 corpus weight
- teaching
teaching
32,844 corpus weight
- tenon
tenon
32,843 corpus weight
- terminerait
terminerait
32,842 corpus weight
- testo
testo
32,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « teaching » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teaching |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtiː.t͡ʃɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « teaching » en français
Rare enough to double-check
teaching is uncommon French at frequency #67,157 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtiː.t͡ʃɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe teach.".
teaching doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is teaching, spelled T-E-A-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe teach.
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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