masticado
[mast̪iˈkað̞o]
The verdict
“masticado” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,350 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,350
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participio de masticar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-masticado · masticado · Spanish
masticado · rank #94,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,350
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,142
- PHOTO-FINISH Mascate
Nearest frequency peer: Mascate (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “masticado”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- maricos
maricos
5,656 corpus weight
- martirizados
martirizados
5,653 corpus weight
- Mascate
Mascate
5,652 corpus weight
- masticado
masticado
5,651 corpus weight
- mecanizadas
mecanizadas
5,648 corpus weight
- Meche
Meche
5,647 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “masticado” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masticado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mast̪iˈkað̞o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “masticado” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
masticado is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,350 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [mast̪iˈkað̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participio de masticar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for masticado in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is masticado, spelled M-A-S-T-I-C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Participio de masticar.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.