mancha
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,442
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mancha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Marca que queda en una superficie al derramar alguna sustancia que tiña. Pronounced [ˈmãnʲt͡ʃa]. It ranks #4,442 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mucha and marca.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mancha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmãnʲt͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mancha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmãnʲt͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,442 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 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 mancha, with forms such as "amncha", "macnha", and "mancah". 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, "mucha", "marca", "Manda", 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 mancha, spelled M-A-N-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marca que queda en una superficie al derramar alguna sustancia que tiña.
- 2Zona de alguna superficie en donde se produce un cambio de color respecto del color dominante.
- 3Zona de un terreno que es destacada.
- 4Conjunto de plantas que se asientan en una zona, haciendo que se distinga del espacio adyacente.
- 5Traición, deshonra.
- 6Majal.
- 7Bandada.
- 8Zona oscura de la Luna.
- 9Experimento hecho sobre el lienzo con la pintura, para analizar la incidencia de la luz.
- 10Juego infantil, en donde una determinada persona (la mancha) debe correr detrás del resto hasta alcanzar (manchar) a otra persona y convertirla en mancha.
- 11En la mancha, persona que corre detrás del resto.
- 12Partida de trompos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amncha,macnha,mancah,manccha,manchha,manhca,manncha,mmancha,mnacha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mancha
Misspelling Variants of "mancha"
Frequency rank: #4,442 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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