tenga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#637
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tenga is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de tener o de tenerse. Pronounced [ˈt̪ẽŋga]. It ranks #637 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tina and teta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ẽŋga] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tenga is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ẽŋga]. Corpus data places it at rank #637 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.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 tenga, with forms such as "etnga", "tegna", and "tenag". 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, "tina", "teta", "toga", 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 tenga, spelled T-E-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de tener o de tenerse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de tener o de tenerse.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de tener o del imperativo negativo de tenerse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etnga,tegna,tenag,tengga,tennga,tnega,ttenga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tenga
Misspelling Variants of "tenga"
Frequency rank: #637 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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