teamvsTVATell them apart

Which to use

“team” and “TVA” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#3,368
“team” frequency rank
#4,450
“TVA” frequency rank
7818
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature team TVA
Definition Équipe, en particulier (mais pas exclusivement) dans un contexte anglo-saxon. Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté in fine par le consommateur final.

Where the eye mixes team and TVA

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
team
3 ch
TVA

Look-alike desk: team vs TVA

A purely visual mix-up. team (\tim\) and TVA (\te.ve.a\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7818, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

team is recorded at frequency rank #3,368, classified as anoun, pronounced \tim\. TVA is at rank #4,450, tagged as anoun, pronounced \te.ve.a\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 7818, this pair ranks #422,028 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of team vs TVA

Shared letters: at. Private to "team": em. Private to "TVA": v.

"team" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "TVA" · 3 letters · shape CCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • teametam · taem · teamm · tema · tteam

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "team" for "TVA" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\tim\ versus \te.ve.a\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "team" or "TVA"?
"team" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,368 in our French list, against #4,450 for "TVA". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "team" and "TVA" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "team" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "TVA" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #422,028 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "team" and "TVA" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tif vs TVA". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #422,028 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list