tale quale

//ˈta.le ˈkwa.le// phrase

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

tale quale is aSpanishphrase. It means: Tal cual, al igual que, así como, como, según, tal como, tal y como. Pronounced /ˈta.le ˈkwa.le/.

Key facts for tale quale
PropertyValue
Headwordtale quale
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ˈta.le ˈkwa.le/
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tale quale is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tale quale is 10 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈta.le ˈkwa.le/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tal cual, al igual que, así como, como, según, tal como, tal y como.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tale quale 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 tale quale, spelled T-A-L-E- -Q-U-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Tal cual, al igual que, así como, como, según, tal como, tal y como.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tale quale"?
"tale quale" is spelled T-A-L-E- -Q-U-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈta.le ˈkwa.le/.
What does "tale quale" mean?
As a phrase, "tale quale" means: Tal cual, al igual que, así como, como, según, tal como, tal y como.
How do you pronounce "tale quale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tale quale" is /ˈta.le ˈkwa.le/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tale quale" come from?
"tale quale" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.