teckel
\te.kɛl\
The verdict
“teckel” is uncommon French (frequency #78,901 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,901
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien originaire d’Allemagne, basset (chien long et court sur pattes), à poil long, ras ou dur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teckel · teckel · French
teckel · rank #78,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,901
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tav
Nearest frequency peer: tav (-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 « teckel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tablent
tablent
21,107 corpus weight
- tarie
tarie
21,103 corpus weight
- tarin
tarin
21,102 corpus weight
- tav
tav
21,101 corpus weight
- teckel
teckel
21,100 corpus weight
- teniez
teniez
21,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « teckel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teckel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.kɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « teckel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
teckel is uncommon French at frequency #78,901 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.kɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chien originaire d’Allemagne, basset (chien long et court sur pattes), à poil long, ras ou dur.".
teckel has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is teckel, spelled T-E-C-K-E-L.
Definition
- 1Race de chien originaire d’Allemagne, basset (chien long et court sur pattes), à poil long, ras ou dur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teckel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle en a élevé une trentaine sur des générations, avec une préférence pour la race Pembroke, mais a aussi créé le « dorgi », croisement du corgi et du teckel.
Les teckels forment le groupe 4 du classement des races de chien par la société centrale canine ou SCC.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).