tiene

/[ˈt̪jene]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#51

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

tiene is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de tener o de tenerse. Pronounced [ˈt̪jene]. It ranks #51 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tin and tren.

Key facts for tiene
PropertyValue
Headwordtiene
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈt̪jene]
Letters5
Frequency rank#51
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tiene is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪jene]. Corpus data places it at rank #51 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de tener o de tenerse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tiene, with forms such as "itene", "teine", and "tieen". 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, "tin", "tren", "time", 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 tiene, spelled T-I-E-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de tener o de tenerse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: itene,teine,tieen,tienne,tinee,ttiene

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tiene

Misspelling Variants of "tiene"

itene5teine5tieen5tienne6tinee5ttiene6
Misspelling Variants of "tiene"

Frequency rank: #51 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tiene"?
"tiene" is spelled T-I-E-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪jene].
What does "tiene" mean?
As a verb, "tiene" means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de tener o de tenerse.
What words are commonly confused with "tiene"?
"tiene" is commonly confused with "tin", "tren", "time". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tiene"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tiene" is [ˈt̪jene]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tiene" come from?
"tiene" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Spanish index:

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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.