tigre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,569
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tigre is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Panthera tigris) Felino asiático de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es distintiva su piel rayada de ... Pronounced [ˈt̪iɣ̞ɾe]. It ranks #5,569 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tre and Tiro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tigre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪iɣ̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tigre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪iɣ̞ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,569 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tigre, with forms such as "itgre", "tgire", and "tiggre". 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, "tre", "Tiro", "tira", 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 tigre, spelled T-I-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Panthera tigris) Felino asiático de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es distintiva su piel rayada de base naranja a blanca con franjas negras. Son predadores solitarios, que cazan en la selva y junto a los ríos, y grandes nadadores. Existen ocho subespecies, distribuidas por el Lejano Oriente, el Indostán y Siberia, todas ellas amenazadas de extinción.
- 2Por analogía, Panthera onca, el mayor de los felinos americanos. De cuerpo amarillo con manchas anulares negras. Habita en selvas y matorrales y se alimenta de toda clase de animales.
- 3Figurativamente, persona de mucho arrojo o capacidad.
- 4Vocativo amistoso o familiar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itgre,tgire,tiggre,tigrre,tirge,ttigre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tigre"
Frequency rank: #5,569 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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