tenaz
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,179
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tenaz is anSpanishadj. It means: Que se pega, ase o prende a una cosa, y es dificultoso de separar. Pronounced [t̪eˈnas]. Often confused with tez and tina.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenaz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [t̪eˈnas] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tenaz is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈnas]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,179 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tenaz, with forms such as "etnaz", "teanz", and "tenazz". 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, "tez", "tina", "teta", 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 tenaz, spelled T-E-N-A-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que se pega, ase o prende a una cosa, y es dificultoso de separar.
- 2Que opone mucha resistencia a romperse o deformarse.
- 3Firme, terco, porfiado y pertinaz en un propósito.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etnaz,teanz,tenazz,tennaz,tenza,tneaz,ttenaz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tenaz
Misspelling Variants of "tenaz"
Frequency rank: #28,179 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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