tears
/tɛəz/ (verbo)
The verdict
“tears” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,660 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,660
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) tear.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tears · tears · Spanish
tears · rank #59,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,660
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tendencioso
Nearest frequency peer: tendencioso (+2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “tears”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- syn
syn
40,348 corpus weight
- takes
takes
40,345 corpus weight
- tears
tears
40,341 corpus weight
- tendencioso
tendencioso
40,339 corpus weight
- terrón
terrón
40,336 corpus weight
- tertulianos
tertulianos
40,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tears” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tears |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tɛəz/ (verbo) |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tears” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tears is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,660 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /tɛəz/ (verbo). Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) tear.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tears, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is tears, spelled T-E-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (he, she, it) del presente simple del verbo (to) tear.
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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