tanque
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,363
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
tanque is aSpanishnoun. It means: Contenedor grande destinado a almacenar líquidos o gases. Pronounced [ˈt̪ãŋke]. It ranks #6,363 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with toque and tenue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ãŋke] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tanque is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ãŋke]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,363 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tanque, with forms such as "atnque", "tannque", and "tanqeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "toque", "tenue", "torque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tanque, spelled T-A-N-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contenedor grande destinado a almacenar líquidos o gases.
- 2Vehículo que transporta un contenedor como el antedicho.
- 3Embarcación destinada al transporte de agua dulce.
- 4Depósito que en los vehículos dotados de motor de combustión interna almacena el combustible.
- 5Vaso de gran capacidad y con una sola asa, empleado sobre todo para cerveza.
- 6Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia.
- 7Estanque artificial destinado a la práctica de la natación y el esparcimiento.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atnque,tannque,tanqeu,tanqque,tanuqe,taqnue,tnaque,ttanque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tanque
Misspelling Variants of "tanque"
Frequency rank: #6,363 in Spanish
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