tenca
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5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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tenca is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Tinca tinca) Pez osteíctio de agua dulce, de cuerpo alargado de entre 20 y 30 cm de largo, color ligeramente verdoso o pardo en el lomo y blanquecino en el vientre; muestra un par de barbillones b... Pronounced [ˈt̪ẽŋka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ẽŋka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for tenca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ẽŋka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Tinca tinca) Pez osteíctio de agua dulce, de cuerpo alargado de entre 20 y 30 cm de largo, color ligeramente verdoso o pardo en el lomo y blanquecino en el vientre; muestra un par de barbillones b...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tenca in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tenca, spelled T-E-N-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Tinca tinca) Pez osteíctio de agua dulce, de cuerpo alargado de entre 20 y 30 cm de largo, color ligeramente verdoso o pardo en el lomo y blanquecino en el vientre; muestra un par de barbillones bajo la boca. Habita en aguas lentas, especialmente charcas y estanques y su carne blanca es sabrosa, bastante apreciada en gastronomía.
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