tamaña
[t̪aˈmaɲa]
The verdict
“tamaña” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,169
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesto grosero que se hace poniendo la palma de la mano hacia arriba, con los dedos encogidos apuntando hacia lo alto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tamana · tamaña · Spanish
tamaña · rank #42,169 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,169
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH talent
Nearest frequency peer: talent (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “tamaña”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- suscribieron
suscribieron
57,835 corpus weight
- sustituya
sustituya
57,834 corpus weight
- talent
talent
57,833 corpus weight
- tamaña
tamaña
57,832 corpus weight
- tangos
tangos
57,831 corpus weight
- tardamos
tardamos
57,830 corpus weight
What this shows “tamaña” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamaña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪aˈmaɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tamaña”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tamaña (IPA [t̪aˈmaɲa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,169 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gesto grosero que se hace poniendo la palma de la mano hacia arriba, con los dedos encogidos apuntando hacia lo alto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tamaña, with forms such as "atmaña", "taamña", and "tamaañ". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "tana", "toman", "tampa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is tamaña, spelled T-A-M-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Gesto grosero que se hace poniendo la palma de la mano hacia arriba, con los dedos encogidos apuntando hacia lo alto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tamaña appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"―¡Toma, tonto, toma!.... ―me gritó.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atmaña
- taamña
- tamaañ
- tammaña
- tamñaa
- tmaaña
- ttamaña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tamaña - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tamaña", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).