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teñido

Spanish, noun

teñido is spelled T-E-Ñ-I-D-O (6 letters) and appears 155 times per million words in written Spanish, the 551st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Teñido is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “dyeing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of teñir. Without its tilde, tenido is a different word: “past participle of tener”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de teñir”.

What does teñido mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedyeing

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of teñir

verb

as tenido
  1. 1

    past participle of tener

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Acción o efecto de teñir.

verb: 1. Participio de teñir.

verb: 1. Participio de tener o de tenerse.

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 teñido

  • teñidos plural
  • tenida feminine
  • tenidos masculine plural
  • tenidas feminine plural
  • teñida feminine
  • teñidas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to teñido

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is teñido in Spanish?

teñido appears 155 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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