terna
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,872
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
terna is aSpanishnoun. It means: El conjunto de las tres personas que son propuestas a una autoridad para que designe a una de entre ellas en una función o empleo. Pronounced [ˈt̪eɾna]. Often confused with tra and tira.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪eɾna] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for terna is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪eɾna]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,872 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 terna, with forms such as "etrna", "tenra", and "teran". 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, "tra", "tira", "tina", 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 terna, spelled T-E-R-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El conjunto de las tres personas que son propuestas a una autoridad para que designe a una de entre ellas en una función o empleo.
- 2Conjunto de tres componentes.
- 3Pareja de tres puntos, en el juego de dados.
- 4Cada juego o conjunto de dados con que se juega.
- 5Ancho de una tela cuando varias piezas de ella se cosen unas al lado de otras.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrna,tenra,teran,ternna,terrna,trena,tterna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for terna
Misspelling Variants of "terna"
Frequency rank: #33,872 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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