tei
\ˈteː.i\
The verdict
“tei” is uncommon French (frequency #71,957 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,957
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe teal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tei · tei · French
tei · rank #71,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,957
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teg
Nearest frequency peer: teg (-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 « tei »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taoïsme
taoïsme
28,049 corpus weight
- taurine
taurine
28,048 corpus weight
- teg
teg
28,045 corpus weight
- tei
tei
28,044 corpus weight
- Tertullien
Tertullien
28,041 corpus weight
- texter
texter
28,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tei » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈteː.i\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tei » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tei is uncommon French at frequency #71,957 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈteː.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe teal.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tei, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tei, spelled T-E-I.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe teal.
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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