teme
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,191
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
teme is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de temar. Pronounced [ˈt̪eme]. It ranks #8,191 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with the and ten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teme |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt̪eme] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for teme is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪eme]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,191 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 teme, with forms such as "etme", "teem", and "temme". 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, "the", "ten", "Tim", 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 teme, spelled T-E-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de temar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de temar.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de temar.
- 4Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de temer.
- 5Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de temer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etme,teem,temme,tmee,tteme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for teme
Misspelling Variants of "teme"
Frequency rank: #8,191 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Spanish index: