ternera
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,850
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
ternera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cría hembra de la vaca, en especial hasta los seis meses de edad Pronounced [t̪eɾˈneɾa]. Often confused with terra and traerá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ternera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪eɾˈneɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ternera is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eɾˈneɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,850 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for ternera, with forms such as "etrnera", "tenrera", and "terenra". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "terra", "traerá", "tetera", 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 ternera, spelled T-E-R-N-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cría hembra de la vaca, en especial hasta los seis meses de edad
- 2Carne de este animal, más tierna y menos sabrosa que la del bovino adulto
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrnera,tenrera,terenra,ternear,ternerra,ternnera,ternrea,terrnera,trenera,tternera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ternera
Misspelling Variants of "ternera"
Frequency rank: #21,850 in Spanish
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