tuna
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,047
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tuna is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Opuntia spp.) Cualquiera de unas 250 especies de cactos naturales del continente americano, con una estructura caulinar formada por segmentos redondos y planos (cladodios), cubiertos de dos clases... Pronounced [ˈt̪una]. Often confused with tus and Tur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪una] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tuna is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪una]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,047 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 tuna, with forms such as "tnua", "ttuna", and "tuan". 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, "tus", "Tur", "tuvo", 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 tuna, spelled T-U-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Opuntia spp.) Cualquiera de unas 250 especies de cactos naturales del continente americano, con una estructura caulinar formada por segmentos redondos y planos (cladodios), cubiertos de dos clases de espinas, que forman estructuras densas y enmarañadas. Se encuentran entre los más resistentes al frío de los cactos, distribuyéndose desde el Canadá hasta Argentina. Su fruto y los brotes tiernos, pelados de la cubierta espinosa, se consumen como fruta y verdura respectivamente.
- 2Fruto de la tuna (Opuntia ficus-indica). Es una baya de pulpa comestible, con la piel verde cubierta de espinas y muchas semillas.
- 3Fruto del candelabro (planta).
- 4Nalgas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tnua,ttuna,tuan,tunna,utna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tuna
Misspelling Variants of "tuna"
Frequency rank: #40,047 in Spanish
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