manta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,705
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
manta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de abrigo usada para la cama o en las personas, que tiene forma cuadrada y está hecha de lana y algodón. Es gruesa y tupida. Pronounced [ˈmãn̪t̪a]. Often confused with mapa and masa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmãn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for manta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmãn̪t̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,705 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for manta, with forms such as "amnta", "manat", and "mannta". 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, "mapa", "masa", "mata", 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 manta, spelled M-A-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda de abrigo usada para la cama o en las personas, que tiene forma cuadrada y está hecha de lana y algodón. Es gruesa y tupida.
- 2Prenda de algodón tejido y teñido a mano.
- 3Prenda de vestir holgada, parte del traje tradicional en los campos de España.
- 4Prenda de vestir rectangular, con un orificio para la cabeza, de colores vistosos y de menor tamaño que el chamanto y el poncho, que forma parte del atuendo típico del huaso chileno.
- 5Prenda de vestir femenina, que consiste en un rectángulo de tela ligera que se echa sobre los hombros.
- 6Rectángulo de material abrigador para proteger el lomo de caballerías, perros y otros animales.
- 7Capa de cualquier material usada para proteger plantas, arbustos y otras cosas.
- 8Acción de propinarle golpes numerosos a alguien.
- 9(Manta birostris) Pez marino de color gris oscuro en el dorso y blanquecino en la parte inferior. Carece de aguijón a diferencia de otras rayas, llega a pesar 1 400kg y medir hasta 8,4m.
- 10Saco o costal de pita usado para acarrear materiales en las minas.
- 11Cierto juego de naipes.
- 12En el ave de rapiña, plumas en número de doce ubicadas tras las llamadas aguaderas.
- 13Madero recubierto de una lámina de acero u otro metal, usada para protegerse del fuego enemigo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnta,manat,mannta,mantta,mmanta,mnata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for manta
Misspelling Variants of "manta"
Frequency rank: #10,705 in Spanish
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