tilapia
[t̪iˈlapja]
The verdict
“tilapia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,556 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,556
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquiera de los peces de agua dulce del orden de los cíclidos, que tradicionalmente constaba únicamente de la familia Tilapiini, pero que hoy se subdividen en más familias. Son de tamaño mediano ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-tilapia · tilapia · Spanish
tilapia · rank #80,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,556
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tinaco
Nearest frequency peer: tinaco (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “tilapia”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- tensar
tensar
19,453 corpus weight
- Teodorico
Teodorico
19,451 corpus weight
- testaruda
testaruda
19,449 corpus weight
- tilapia
tilapia
19,445 corpus weight
- tinaco
tinaco
19,444 corpus weight
- tinaja
tinaja
19,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tilapia” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilapia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪iˈlapja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tilapia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tilapia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,556 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t̪iˈlapja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cualquiera de los peces de agua dulce del orden de los cíclidos, que tradicionalmente constaba únicamente de la familia Tilapiini, pero que hoy se subdividen en más familias. Son de tamaño mediano ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tilapia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is tilapia, spelled T-I-L-A-P-I-A.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de los peces de agua dulce del orden de los cíclidos, que tradicionalmente constaba únicamente de la familia Tilapiini, pero que hoy se subdividen en más familias. Son de tamaño mediano y son muy utilizados para la acuicultura.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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