tec

Other forms of tec

plural

tecs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tec

What does tec mean?

tec means "a police officer who investigates crimes".

How many syllables are in tec?

tec has 1 syllable: tec. In IPA it is /ˈtɛk/.

What is another word for tec?

Close synonyms include detective, investigator, police detective. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tec a common word?

tec is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tec?

7 words rhyme with tec. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.