tijera
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,248
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
tijera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Herramienta para cortar, formada por dos hojas cruzadas y unidas por un perno que las articula, moviéndose los extremos sin filo para cerrar el lado opuesto y cortar el material que allí se coloque. Pronounced [t̪iˈxeɾa]. Often confused with tira and traerá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tijera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪iˈxeɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tijera is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈxeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,248 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 tijera, with forms such as "itjera", "tiejra", and "tijear". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "tira", "traerá", "títere", 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 tijera, spelled T-I-J-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Herramienta para cortar, formada por dos hojas cruzadas y unidas por un perno que las articula, moviéndose los extremos sin filo para cerrar el lado opuesto y cortar el material que allí se coloque.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier utensilio o estructura dispuesta con una articulación semejante, como las patas de una silla plegable.
- 3En especial, soporte formado por dos piezas cruzadas, como el que sujetaba la caja de los carruajes.
- 4Movimiento que consiste en patear el balón durante un salto, golpeándolo con una pierna elevada sobre el resto del cuerpo, que a su vez está en el aire.
- 5Zanja de desagüe practicada en un terreno excesivamente húmedo.
- 6Persona que opera unas tijeras, en particular el esquilador de ovejas.
- 7Cantidad de reses que una tijera₆ puede esquilar durante una jornada laboral.
- 8Lengua bífida de ciertos reptiles.
- 9Soporte vertical en que reposa la cubierta de una estructura.
- 10Presa realizada con las piernas cruzadas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itjera,tiejra,tijear,tijerra,tijjera,tijrea,tjiera,ttijera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tijera
Misspelling Variants of "tijera"
Frequency rank: #23,248 in Spanish
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