teiller
\te.je\
The verdict
“teiller” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de tiller. Débarrasser de la tille, détacher le filament du chanvre ou du lin, en brisant la chènevotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teiller · teiller · French
teiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \te.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
teiller is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \te.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de tiller. Débarrasser de la tille, détacher le filament du chanvre ou du lin, en brisant la chènevotte.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for teiller, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is teiller, spelled T-E-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Variante de tiller. Débarrasser de la tille, détacher le filament du chanvre ou du lin, en brisant la chènevotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des vieilles femmes ténébreuses filaient à la chandelle dans la cuisine, le soir, teillaient et dévidaient le chanvre des propriétés, pour fournir les lits et l’office de toile lourde, inusable et froide.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.