tuétano
[ˈt̪wet̪ano]
The verdict
“tuétano” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,740 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,740
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tejido graso que se encuentra en el interior de los huesos de los vertebrados. Es suave, mantecoso y hematógeno.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tuetano · tuétano · Spanish
tuétano · rank #78,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,740
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH túmulos
Nearest frequency peer: túmulos (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tuétano”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- transcriben
transcriben
21,272 corpus weight
- trasmitida
trasmitida
21,270 corpus weight
- trepan
trepan
21,267 corpus weight
- tucanes
tucanes
21,264 corpus weight
- tuétano
tuétano
21,261 corpus weight
- túmulos
túmulos
21,259 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tuétano” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuétano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪wet̪ano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “tuétano” en la frecuencia del español
Rare enough to double-check
tuétano is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,740 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt̪wet̪ano]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tuétano, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is tuétano, spelled T-U-É-T-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Tejido graso que se encuentra en el interior de los huesos de los vertebrados. Es suave, mantecoso y hematógeno.
- 2Preparación a partir de este tejido, usada como alimento.
- 3Parénquima suave y esponjoso que se encuentra en la parte central del tallo de las plantas. Está rodeado por haces de tejido conductor en un anillo más resistente o leñoso. Puede desaparecer parcial o totalmente, según la planta, dejando a veces un tallo hueco.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
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