tafetán

/[t̪afeˈt̪ãn]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#94,680

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tafetán is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tela delgada de seda, muy tupida, de la que hay varios tipos, como doble, doblete, sencillo, etc. Pronounced [t̪afeˈt̪ãn].

Key facts for tafetán
PropertyValue
Headwordtafetán
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t̪afeˈt̪ãn]
Letters7
Frequency rank#94,680
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tafetán in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tafetán is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪afeˈt̪ãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #94,680 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tela delgada de seda, muy tupida, de la que hay varios tipos, como doble, doblete, sencillo, etc.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tafetán in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is tafetán, spelled T-A-F-E-T-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tela delgada de seda, muy tupida, de la que hay varios tipos, como doble, doblete, sencillo, etc.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #94,680 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tafetán"?
"tafetán" is spelled T-A-F-E-T-Á-N. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪afeˈt̪ãn].
What does "tafetán" mean?
As a noun, "tafetán" means: Tela delgada de seda, muy tupida, de la que hay varios tipos, como doble, doblete, sencillo, etc.
How do you pronounce "tafetán"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tafetán" is [t̪afeˈt̪ãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tafetán" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.