teníais
[t̪eˈniajs]
The verdict
“teníais” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,694 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,694
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del plural (vosotros, vosotras) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de tener o de tenerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-teniais · teníais · Spanish
teníais · rank #62,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,694
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tiemble
Nearest frequency peer: tiemble (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “teníais”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- tant
tant
37,314 corpus weight
- telefónicam…
telefónicamente
37,309 corpus weight
- teníais
teníais
37,307 corpus weight
- tiemble
tiemble
37,306 corpus weight
- tiesa
tiesa
37,305 corpus weight
- tipas
tipas
37,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “teníais” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teníais |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪eˈniajs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “teníais” en español
Rare enough to double-check
teníais is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,694 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t̪eˈniajs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del plural (vosotros, vosotras) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de tener o de tenerse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for teníais in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is teníais, spelled T-E-N-Í-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del plural (vosotros, vosotras) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de tener o de tenerse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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