terno

/[ˈt̪eɾno]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#61,954

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

terno is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de tres cosas de una misma especie. Pronounced [ˈt̪eɾno].

Key facts for terno
PropertyValue
Headwordterno
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt̪eɾno]
Letters5
Frequency rank#61,954
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of terno in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for terno is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪eɾno]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,954 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for terno in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 terno, spelled T-E-R-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conjunto de tres cosas de una misma especie.
  2. 2
    Suerte de tres números, en el juego de la lotería primitiva.
  3. 3
    Conjunto de pantalón, chaleco y chaqueta, u otra prenda semejante, hechos de la misma tela.
  4. 4
    Conjunto del oficiante y sus dos ministros, diácono y subdiácono, que celebran una misa mayor o asisten en esta forma a una función eclesiástica.
  5. 5
    Vestuario exterior del terno eclesiástico, el cual consta de casulla y capa pluvial para el oficiante y de dalmáticas para sus dos ministros.
  6. 6
    Voto, juramento o porvida.
  7. 7
    Conjunto de tres pliegos impresos metidos uno dentro de otro.
  8. 8
    Adorno de joyas y pendientes.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #61,954 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "terno"?
"terno" is spelled T-E-R-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪eɾno].
What does "terno" mean?
As a noun, "terno" means: Conjunto de tres cosas de una misma especie.
How do you pronounce "terno"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "terno" is [ˈt̪eɾno]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "terno" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.