tinque
[ˈt̪ĩŋke]
The verdict
“tinque” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de tincar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tinque · tinque · Spanish
tinque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tinque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ĩŋke] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tinque” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tinque is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt̪ĩŋke]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acción o efecto de tincar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tinque, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is tinque, spelled T-I-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de tincar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tinque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le di un tinque a mi bolita que la hice andar tres metros.
En el tinque conocí que la sandía estaba madura.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.