tónico
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,510
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tónico is anSpanishadj. It means: Que pertenece o concierne al tono. Pronounced [ˈt̪oniko]. Often confused with tono and tonto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tónico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈt̪oniko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tónico is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪oniko]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,510 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tónico, with forms such as "tnóico", "ttónico", and "tóinco". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tono", "tonto", "topic", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tónico, spelled T-Ó-N-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne al tono.
- 2Que da fuerza, tono o vigor.
- 3Que provoca o favorece el tono de un músculo, de un órgano, o del metabolismo en general.
- 4Que establece el fundamento de la armonía y melodía de una pieza o escala. Se dice de la primera nota de una escala.
- 5Que tiene acento prosódico, pronunciándose con mayor fuerza de voz.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tnóico,ttónico,tóinco,tóncio,tónicco,tónioc,tónnico,ótnico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tónico
Misspelling Variants of "tónico"
Frequency rank: #39,510 in Spanish
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