tunnel
/tyˈnɛl/
The verdict
“tunnel” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,539 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,539
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Túnel
Corpus desk
Index ES-tunnel · tunnel · Spanish
tunnel · rank #92,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,539
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tunda
Nearest frequency peer: tunda (-1 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “tunnel”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- triaje
triaje
7,469 corpus weight
- trotskismo
trotskismo
7,467 corpus weight
- tránsfuga
tránsfuga
7,465 corpus weight
- tunda
tunda
7,463 corpus weight
- tunnel
tunnel
7,462 corpus weight
- ull
ull
7,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tunnel” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tunnel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tyˈnɛl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tunnel” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tunnel is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,539 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tyˈnɛl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Túnel".
No misspelling variants are generated for tunnel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is tunnel, spelled T-U-N-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Túnel
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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