té
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,126
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
té is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Camellia sinensis) Arbusto de la famila de las cameliáceas, originario de Assam y de Bengala. Fue cultivado en China desde el siglo IV e introducido en Europa en el siglo XVI. Es perenne, de no má... Pronounced [ˈt̪e]. It ranks #4,126 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tú and to.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | té |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪e] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for té is 2 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,126 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for té in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "to", "TV", 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 té, spelled T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Camellia sinensis) Arbusto de la famila de las cameliáceas, originario de Assam y de Bengala. Fue cultivado en China desde el siglo IV e introducido en Europa en el siglo XVI. Es perenne, de no más de 4 metros de altura, con hojas lanceoladas, ligeramente pubescentes, de hasta 15 centímetros de longitud y 5 de ancho. Las flores son blanco-amarillentas.
- 2Hojas desecadas de este arbusto, especialmente si cortadas en finas hebras para su uso en infusión.
- 3Infusión preparada con estas hojas secas o fermentadas, que es una bebida estimulante rica en cafeína.
- 4Infusión cualquiera de plantas medicinales.
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Frequency rank: #4,126 in Spanish
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