teta
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,996
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
teta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Órgano glanduloso de los mamíferos que sirve en las hembras para secretar leche. Pronounced [ˈt̪et̪a]. Often confused with tía and tra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪et̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for teta is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪et̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,996 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for teta, with forms such as "etta", "teat", and "tetta". 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, "tía", "tra", "TNT", 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 teta, spelled T-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Órgano glanduloso de los mamíferos que sirve en las hembras para secretar leche.
- 2Protuberancia de la teta₁ que contiene conductos lácteos, empleados en la lactancia.
- 3Apego excesivo hacia alguna cosa en particular, particularmente a una fuente de dinero fácil.^([cita requerida])
- 4Tipo de helado en una bolsa de plástico de forma cónica, generalmente artesanal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etta,teat,tetta,ttea,tteta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for teta
Misspelling Variants of "teta"
Frequency rank: #16,996 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Spanish index: