tego
[ˈtɛ.go:]
The verdict
“tego” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #77,731 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,731
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cubrir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tego · tego · Spanish
tego · rank #77,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,731
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tenazmente
Nearest frequency peer: tenazmente (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “tego”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- taquígrafos
taquígrafos
22,274 corpus weight
- tazos
tazos
22,272 corpus weight
- tego
tego
22,270 corpus weight
- tenazmente
tenazmente
22,269 corpus weight
- tendedero
tendedero
22,268 corpus weight
- tentativo
tentativo
22,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tego” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈtɛ.go:] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tego” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tego is uncommon Spanish at frequency #77,731 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈtɛ.go:]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tego, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is tego, spelled T-E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Cubrir.
- 2Cubrir de tierra, enterrar.
- 3Ocultar, encubrir, ocultar a la vista.
- 4Disimular, disfrazar.
- 5Guardar para sí, callar.
- 6Proteger, defender.
- 7Cubrir.
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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