tana
[ˈt̪ana]
The verdict
“tana” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,480) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,480
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véase ser más viejo que la tana.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tana · tana · Spanish
tana · rank #44,480 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,480
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tanner
Nearest frequency peer: tanner (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “tana”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sura
sura
55,527 corpus weight
- suscrita
suscrita
55,525 corpus weight
- sustituirá
sustituirá
55,524 corpus weight
- tana
tana
55,521 corpus weight
- tanner
tanner
55,520 corpus weight
- temporizador
temporizador
55,517 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tana” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | tana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ana] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tana”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tana is neighbouring look-alikes ("ten", "tía", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈt̪ana]. Frequency #44,480 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Véase ser más viejo que la tana.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for tana, with forms such as "tanna", "tnaa", and "ttana". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ten", "tía", "tas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is tana, spelled T-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Véase ser más viejo que la tana.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tanna
- tnaa
- ttana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tana - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "tana", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).