tono
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,428
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tono is aSpanishnoun. It means: Propiedad de los sonidos que los caracteriza como más agudos o más graves, en función de su frecuencia. Pronounced [ˈt̪ono]. It ranks #2,428 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with top and tos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tono |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ono] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tono is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ono]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,428 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tono, with forms such as "otno", "tnoo", and "tonno". 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, "top", "tos", "too", 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 tono, spelled T-O-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Propiedad de los sonidos que los caracteriza como más agudos o más graves, en función de su frecuencia.
- 2Cualidad sonora del habla que depende de la actitud u otros factores de la persona en cuestión.
- 3Sonido emitido por un teléfono u otro aparato de comunicación como indicación de que la línea telefónica está activa y funcionando, o al momento de presionar una tecla o botón del dispositivo.
- 4Conjunto de características de un texto u otra obra, artística o de otro tipo, el cual surge a partir de su modo de redacción o composición en función del contexto o tema que se relacione con tal producción.
- 5Implicación respecto a cierta creencia, moral o ideología.
- 6Apariencia de un color, por ejemplo su brillo, saturación, contraste, o la combinación de tales cualidades.
- 7Frecuencia o entonación de una palabra o lema.
- 8En una escala musical, la distribución de sus notas.
- 9Nombre de una escala musical basado en su nota principal o fundamental.
- 10Intervalo musical equivalente a dos semitonos, o a la distancia entre dos notas o teclas adyacentes de un piano.
- 11Fiesta.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otno,tnoo,tonno,toon,ttono
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tono
Misspelling Variants of "tono"
Frequency rank: #2,428 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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