Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tenerife

/ˌtɛnəˈɹiːf/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: tener-ife
IPA: /ˌtɛnəˈɹiːf/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An island of the Canary Islands, the largest of the islands. Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife

name

Ellipsis of Tenerife aircrash: The 27 March 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, a ground collision between two fully loaded Boeing 747s operating as KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife Island, destroying both; the crash colloquially known as "Tenerife".

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Tenerife, from Guanche.

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Inflected Forms

Teneriffe (alternative, dated)

Phrases

Tenerife aircrash Tenerife air disaster Tenerife airport disaster Tenerife crash Tenerife disaster Tenerife giant lizard Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Frequently Paired Words

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Rhymes With

chief in chief relief brief belief beef leaf grief thief reef motif serif

Questions

How do you pronounce tenerife?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌtɛnəˈɹiːf/.
What does tenerife mean?: An island of the Canary Islands, the largest of the islands. Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Where does tenerife come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Tenerife, from Guanche.

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