tears

//tɛəz/ (verbo)/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#59,660

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tears is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) tear. Pronounced /tɛəz/ (verbo).

Key facts for tears
PropertyValue
Headwordtears
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/tɛəz/ (verbo)
Letters5
Frequency rank#59,660
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tears in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tears is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɛəz/ (verbo). Corpus data places it at rank #59,660 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) tear.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tears in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 tears, spelled T-E-A-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) tear.

Frequency rank: #59,660 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tears"?
"tears" is spelled T-E-A-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is /tɛəz/ (verbo).
What does "tears" mean?
As a verb, "tears" means: Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) tear.
How do you pronounce "tears"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tears" is /tɛəz/ (verbo). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tears" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.