tinta china
[ˈt̪ĩn̪t̪a ˈt͡ʃina]
The verdict
“tinta china” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Tinta negra de carbón vegetal, que se distribuye en lingotes sólidos elaborados del pigmento muy finamente molido y resinas vegetales, y se disuelve al momento de usar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tinta china |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ĩn̪t̪a ˈt͡ʃina] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tinta china” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tinta china is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ĩn̪t̪a ˈt͡ʃina]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tinta china in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tinta china, spelled T-I-N-T-A- -C-H-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tinta negra de carbón vegetal, que se distribuye en lingotes sólidos elaborados del pigmento muy finamente molido y resinas vegetales, y se disuelve al momento de usar.
- 2Obra pictórica realizada con esta tinta.
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Using “tinta china”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-N-T-A- -C-H-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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