tierno
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,905
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
tierno is anSpanishadj. It means: De textura blanda y fácil de partir. Pronounced [ˈt̪jeɾno]. It ranks #9,905 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Tiro and torno.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tierno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈt̪jeɾno] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tierno is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪jeɾno]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,905 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tierno, with forms such as "iterno", "teirno", and "tienro". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Tiro", "torno", "turno", 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 tierno, spelled T-I-E-R-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De textura blanda y fácil de partir.
- 2Que demuestra fácilmente afecto y dulzura.
- 3Que despierta estos mismos sentimientos.
- 4Que tiene poco tiempo de vida y no ha alcanzado aún su pleno desarrollo.
- 5Dicho de un fruto, que no ha llegado a la madurez.
- 6Que aún no se ha secado por completo.
- 7Que carece del vigor y la firmeza necesarios.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iterno,teirno,tienro,tiernno,tieron,tierrno,tireno,ttierno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tierno
Misspelling Variants of "tierno"
Frequency rank: #9,905 in Spanish
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