timple
Spanish, noun/ˈtimple/
timple is spelled T-I-M-P-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 153,784th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Timple is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “alternative form of tiple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento musical de cuerda típico de Canarias (España). Consiste en una pequeña guitarra de cinco cuerdas…”.
What does timple mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of tiple
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrumento musical de cuerda típico de Canarias (España). Consiste en una pequeña guitarra de cinco cuerdas o en algunos casos de cuatro cuerdas y con una caja de resonancia estrecha y abombada por debajo denominada joroba. La afinación del timple puede ser variante dependiendo de para qué se use y quién sea el intérprete, pero la afinación más usada del instrumento es RE, LA, MI, DO, SOL.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of timple
- timples plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce timple?
- /ˈtimple/
- [ˈt̪ĩm.ple]
- [ˈt̪ĩmple]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is timple in Spanish?
timple appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).