tentando
[t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]
The verdict
“tentando” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,150 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,150
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerundio de tentar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tentando · tentando · Spanish
tentando · rank #58,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,150
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tentados
Nearest frequency peer: tentados (-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 “tentando”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Teller
Teller
41,854 corpus weight
- temí
temí
41,853 corpus weight
- tentados
tentados
41,852 corpus weight
- tentando
tentando
41,851 corpus weight
- Tobar
Tobar
41,849 corpus weight
- tocarán
tocarán
41,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tentando” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentando |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪ãn̪d̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tentando” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tentando is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,150 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerundio de tentar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tentando in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is tentando, spelled T-E-N-T-A-N-D-O.
Definition
- 1Gerundio de tentar.
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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