manhattan
The verdict
“manhattan” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #10,528 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #10,528
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cóctel clásico a base de güisqui (de centeno o canadiense) y vermú rojo, que se suele tomar como aperitivo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manhattan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mãnˈat̪ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “manhattan” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for manhattan is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mãnˈat̪ãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,528 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cóctel clásico a base de güisqui (de centeno o canadiense) y vermú rojo, que se suele tomar como aperitivo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for manhattan, with forms such as "amnhattan", "mahnattan", and "manahttan". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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.
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 manhattan, spelled M-A-N-H-A-T-T-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cóctel clásico a base de güisqui (de centeno o canadiense) y vermú rojo, que se suele tomar como aperitivo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnhattan,mahnattan,manahttan,manhatan,manhatatn,manhattann,manhattna,manhhattan,manhtatan,mannhattan,mmanhattan,mnahattan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manhattan — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "manhattan"
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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Using “manhattan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-N-H-A-T-T-A-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [mãnˈat̪ãn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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