tele
[ˈt̪ele]
The verdict
“tele” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,203
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apócope de televisión.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tele · tele · Spanish
tele · rank #4,203 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,203
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tardes
Nearest frequency peer: tardes (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “tele”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sufrió
sufrió
95,801 corpus weight
- supo
supo
95,800 corpus weight
- tardes
tardes
95,799 corpus weight
- tele
tele
95,798 corpus weight
- tenéis
tenéis
95,797 corpus weight
- territorial
territorial
95,796 corpus weight
What this shows “tele” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tele |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ele] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tele”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tele (IPA [ˈt̪ele]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,203 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apócope de televisión.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tele, with forms such as "etle", "teel", and "telle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "the", "ten", "ter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is tele, spelled T-E-L-E.
Definition
- 1Apócope de televisión.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etle
- teel
- telle
- tlee
- ttele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tele - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tele", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).