tendal
The verdict
“tendal” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Toldo (manta que se usa para hacer sombra).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪al] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tendal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tendal is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪al]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tendal 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 tendal, spelled T-E-N-D-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Toldo (manta que se usa para hacer sombra).
- 2Trozo largo y ancho de lienzo, que se pone debajo de los olivos para que caigan en él las aceitunas cuando se recogen.
- 3Espacio solado donde se pone el caf, el cacao, el tabaco o la coca para que se seque al sol.
- 4Tendedero.
- 5Conjunto de cosas tendidas para que se sequen.
- 6Lugar cubierto en donde se esquilaba el ganado.
- 7Cada uno de los dos maderos laterales del lecho de la carreta.
- 8Tendalera.
- 9Lugar en donde se fabrican y se queman tanto las tejas como el ladrillo cuarterón.
- 10En ciertas casas, lugar destinado a guardar maíz u otros granos.
- 11Viga.
- 12Gran cantidad de personas, objetos o animales concentrados en un sitio.
- 13Gran cantidad de ropa que debe ser planchada.
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Using “tendal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-N-D-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪al] (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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