tenente
Spanish, noun/teˈnente/
tenente is spelled T-E-N-E-N-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 126,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tenente is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “tenant-in-chief” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cargo designado por el rey en la Edad Media. El rey encomienda guardar en su nombre algún punto estratégico…”.
What does tenente mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetenant-in-chief
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cargo designado por el rey en la Edad Media. El rey encomienda guardar en su nombre algún punto estratégico de la frontera del Duero y sus alfoces dependientes.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tenente
- tenentes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tenente?
- /teˈnente/
- [t̪eˈnẽn̪.t̪e]
- [t̪eˈnẽn̪t̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tenente in Spanish?
tenente appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).