tenaza
The verdict
“tenaza” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #90,410 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #90,410
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Instrumento de metal, compuesto de dos brazos trabados por un clavillo o eje que permite abrirlos y volverlos a cerrar. Su uso es coger o sujetar fuertemente una cosa, o arrancarla o cortarla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenaza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪eˈnasa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tenaza” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tenaza is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈnasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,410 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tenaza in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tenaza, spelled T-E-N-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de metal, compuesto de dos brazos trabados por un clavillo o eje que permite abrirlos y volverlos a cerrar. Su uso es coger o sujetar fuertemente una cosa, o arrancarla o cortarla.
- 2Pinzas.
- 3Extremo libre de la viga de los antiguos molinos de aceite.
- 4Par de cartas con las cuales se hacen precisamente dos bazas en algunos juegos de naipes, esperando quien las tiene que venga el juego en la mano.
Frequency rank: #90,410 in Spanish
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Using “tenaza”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-N-A-Z-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eˈnasa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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