tinaja
[t̪iˈnaxa]
The verdict
“tinaja” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,558 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,558
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vasija grande de barro cocido (y a veces vidriado), mucho más ancha por el medio que por el fondo y la boca. Sirve ordinariamente para guardar agua, vino, aceite u otros líquidos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tinaja · tinaja · Spanish
tinaja · rank #80,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,558
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 “tinaja”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- 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
- tornaba
tornaba
19,436 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tinaja” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tinaja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪iˈnaxa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tinaja” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tinaja is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,558 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t̪iˈnaxa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tinaja, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is tinaja, spelled T-I-N-A-J-A.
Definition
- 1Vasija grande de barro cocido (y a veces vidriado), mucho más ancha por el medio que por el fondo y la boca. Sirve ordinariamente para guardar agua, vino, aceite u otros líquidos.
- 2Dícese también de la cantidad de líquido que cabe en una de estas vasijas.
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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