tetina
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tetina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Protuberancia pequeña en la parte más o menos central del seno o mama o teta y empleado por los lactantes para chupar su alimento. Pronounced [t̪eˈt̪ina].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tetina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪eˈt̪ina] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for tetina is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈt̪ina]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tetina 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 tetina, spelled T-E-T-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Protuberancia pequeña en la parte más o menos central del seno o mama o teta y empleado por los lactantes para chupar su alimento.
- 2Pieza de goma con un agujero al extremo de un biberón (botella de cristal o plástico), que se utiliza para alimentar con leche a los bebés
- 3(Ageratum conyzoides) Especie de fanerógama tóxica, considerada maleza, nativa de Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay. Crece cerca de 70 cm de altura, con hojas opuestas, con flores pequeñas, rosadas a blancas, en los extremos de sus ramas rojizas, pilosas.
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