tele
Spanish, noun/tele/
tele is spelled T-E-L-E (4 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,150th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tele is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “television” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Apócope de televisión”.
What does tele mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetelevision
prefix
- 1
tele- (over a distance)
- 2
tele- (television)
- 3
tele- (telephone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Apócope de televisión.
prefix: 1. Elemento compositivo que significa "a distancia", "desde lejos", "de modo remoto". 2. Elemento compositivo que significa "televisión" (transmisión a distancia de imágenes en movimiento y sonidos).
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tele
- teles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tele?
- /tele/
- [t̪e.le]
- /ˈtele/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tele
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tele in Spanish?
tele appears 19 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).