tique

/[ˈt̪ike]/ noun

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5 characters

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Spanish

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tique is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Aextoxicon punctatum) Árbol endémico de Chile, único miembro de la familia Aextoxicaceae. De copa globosa y tronco de corteza gris; hojas opuestas, de envés con puntitos rojos, pilosas y ásperas; ... Pronounced [ˈt̪ike].

Key facts for tique
PropertyValue
Headwordtique
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt̪ike]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tique is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tique is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ike]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Aextoxicon punctatum) Árbol endémico de Chile, único miembro de la familia Aextoxicaceae. De copa globosa y tronco de corteza gris; hojas opuestas, de envés con puntitos rojos, pilosas y ásperas; ...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tique, spelled T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Aextoxicon punctatum) Árbol endémico de Chile, único miembro de la familia Aextoxicaceae. De copa globosa y tronco de corteza gris; hojas opuestas, de envés con puntitos rojos, pilosas y ásperas; flores blancas unisexuales en racimos; su fruto es una drupa de unos 10 mm, de color negro o gris oscuro.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tique"?
"tique" is spelled T-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪ike].
What does "tique" mean?
As a noun, "tique" means: (Aextoxicon punctatum) Árbol endémico de Chile, único miembro de la familia Aextoxicaceae. De copa globosa y tronco de corteza gris; hojas opuestas, de envés con puntitos rojos, pilosas y ásperas; ...
How do you pronounce "tique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tique" is [ˈt̪ike]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tique" come from?
"tique" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.