triste
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,259
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
triste is anSpanishadj. It means: Que siente tristeza. Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾist̪e]. It ranks #1,259 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with trust and twist.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triste |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾist̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for triste is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾist̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,259 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for triste, with forms such as "rtiste", "tirste", and "triset". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "trust", "twist", "trote", 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 triste, spelled T-R-I-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que siente tristeza.
- 2De carácter propenso a la tristeza.
- 3Que muestra o denota tristeza.
- 4Que ocasiona o inspira tristeza.
- 5Que no satisface eficazmente su propósito.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtiste,tirste,triset,trisste,tristte,tritse,trriste,trsite,ttriste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for triste
Misspelling Variants of "triste"
Frequency rank: #1,259 in Spanish
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