tijeras
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,270
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
tijeras 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 [t̪iˈxeɾas]. Often confused with tiras and títeres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tijeras |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪iˈxeɾas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tijeras is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈxeɾas]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,270 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for tijeras, with forms such as "itjeras", "tiejras", and "tijears". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tiras", "títeres", "tijera", 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 tijeras, spelled T-I-J-E-R-A-S, 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.
- 3Cada uno de las correas o tensores sobre los que se suspendía la caja de un coche de caballos, cruzados según este principio.
- 4Piezas verticales que sostienen la cubierta de un edificio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itjeras,tiejras,tijears,tijerass,tijerras,tijersa,tijjeras,tijreas,tjieras,ttijeras
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Misspelling Variants of "tijeras"
Frequency rank: #19,270 in Spanish
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