entretuvo
[ẽn̪t̪ɾeˈt̪uβ̞o]
The verdict
“entretuvo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #70,235 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,235
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de entretener o de entretenerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-entretuvo · entretuvo · Spanish
entretuvo · rank #70,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,235
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH entreteniendo
Nearest frequency peer: entreteniendo (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “entretuvo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- enterraban
enterraban
29,769 corpus weight
- entrelaza
entrelaza
29,768 corpus weight
- entretenien…
entreteniendo
29,767 corpus weight
- entretuvo
entretuvo
29,766 corpus weight
- entrometido
entrometido
29,764 corpus weight
- equiparables
equiparables
29,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “entretuvo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entretuvo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽn̪t̪ɾeˈt̪uβ̞o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “entretuvo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
entretuvo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #70,235 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽn̪t̪ɾeˈt̪uβ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de entretener o de entretenerse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for entretuvo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Spanish form is entretuvo, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-U-V-O.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de entretener o de entretenerse.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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