tehuelche
The verdict
“tehuelche” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #88,376 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #88,376
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Persona perteneciente a un pueblo amerindio nómada que habitaba la Patagonia entre el río Santa Cruz y el Estrecho de Magallanes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tehuelche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [t̪eˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elʲt͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tehuelche” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tehuelche is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elʲt͡ʃe]. Corpus data places it at rank #88,376 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tehuelche 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 tehuelche, spelled T-E-H-U-E-L-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona perteneciente a un pueblo amerindio nómada que habitaba la Patagonia entre el río Santa Cruz y el Estrecho de Magallanes.
- 2Por extensión, miembro de otros pueblos de la Patagonia de características semejantes.
- 3Se dice de algo que proviene o tiene relación con los tehuelches o su cultura.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #88,376 in Spanish
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Using “tehuelche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-H-U-E-L-C-H-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elʲt͡ʃe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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