tetra
[ˈt̪et̪ɾa]
The verdict
“tetra” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,264 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,264
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Alestiidae, Characidae, Lebiasinidae) Cualquiera de ciertas especies de peces de agua dulce nativas de Sudamérica y África Occidental, que son muy utilizadas en los acuarios y las peceras.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tetra · tetra · Spanish
tetra · rank #51,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,264
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH terruño
Nearest frequency peer: terruño (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “tetra”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- tendero
tendero
48,740 corpus weight
- terruño
terruño
48,738 corpus weight
- tetra
tetra
48,737 corpus weight
- tiesto
tiesto
48,736 corpus weight
- tinglado
tinglado
48,735 corpus weight
- toba
toba
48,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tetra” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tetra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪et̪ɾa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tetra” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tetra is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,264 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt̪et̪ɾa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Alestiidae, Characidae, Lebiasinidae) Cualquiera de ciertas especies de peces de agua dulce nativas de Sudamérica y África Occidental, que son muy utilizadas en los acuarios y las peceras.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tetra, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is tetra, spelled T-E-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1(Alestiidae, Characidae, Lebiasinidae) Cualquiera de ciertas especies de peces de agua dulce nativas de Sudamérica y África Occidental, que son muy utilizadas en los acuarios y las peceras.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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