tic
[ˈt̪ik]
The verdict
“tic” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,634) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,634
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cada una de las pulsaciones o golpes que da un reloj analógico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tic · tic · Spanish
tic · rank #7,634 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,634
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tendríamos
Nearest frequency peer: tendríamos (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “tic”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- tarda
tarda
92,370 corpus weight
- tel
tel
92,369 corpus weight
- tendríamos
tendríamos
92,368 corpus weight
- tic
tic
92,367 corpus weight
- Tim
Tim
92,366 corpus weight
- trajes
trajes
92,365 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “tic” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tic |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ik] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “tic”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tic is neighbouring look-alikes ("tú", "to", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈt̪ik]. Frequency #7,634 among 3,005 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
tic has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "to", "TV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is tic, spelled T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las pulsaciones o golpes que da un reloj analógico.
- 2Por extensión, cada uno de los flancos de la señal del reloj, los cuales sincronizan las acciones de un crircuito digital y a la vez permiten contar el tiempo.
- 3Movimiento motor o vocal repentino, repetitivo y no rítmico el cual involucra uno o varios músculos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De los nervios me vino un tic En el fondo siempre fui un freak Les di fuego con yesquero Bic Pero me pareció poco chic
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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