tela
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,955
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Material formado por numerosos hilos dispuestos en dos juegos perpendicularmente dispuestos, llamados urdimbre y trama, que se entrelazan manual o mecánicamente para formar una lámina Pronounced [ˈt̪ela]. It ranks #4,955 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ten and tía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ela] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tela is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ela]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,955 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tela, with forms such as "etla", "teal", and "tella". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ten", "tía", "ter", 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 tela, spelled T-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Material formado por numerosos hilos dispuestos en dos juegos perpendicularmente dispuestos, llamados urdimbre y trama, que se entrelazan manual o mecánicamente para formar una lámina
- 2Película de tejido que recubre un órgano en los animales y vegetales
- 3Material que confeccionan las arañas hilando una secreción que solidifica en contacto con el aire, y que emplean para atrapar a sus presas
- 4Pintura realizada sobre lienzo u otro material textil
- 5Bien que se usa para el pago de otros bienes y servicios y como unidad de medida de la riqueza
- 6Conjunto de bienes que alguien posee, en especial los líquidos
- 7Asunto o tema de discusión, en especial si es confuso o enredado
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etla,teal,tella,tlea,ttela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tela
Misspelling Variants of "tela"
Frequency rank: #4,955 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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