mecánica
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,856
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
mecánica is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte de la Física que trata de las fuerzas y sus efectos sobre los cuerpos. Forman parte de ella la Estática, que trata del equilibrio de fuerzas en cuerpos rígidos, inmóviles o en movimiento unif... Pronounced [meˈkanika]. It ranks #5,856 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mecánico and metálica.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mecánica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈkanika] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mecánica is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈkanika]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,856 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for mecánica, with forms such as "emcánica", "mceánica", and "meccánica". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "mecánico", "metálica", "mecánicos", 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 mecánica, spelled M-E-C-Á-N-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte de la Física que trata de las fuerzas y sus efectos sobre los cuerpos. Forman parte de ella la Estática, que trata del equilibrio de fuerzas en cuerpos rígidos, inmóviles o en movimiento uniforme; y la Dinámica que se ocupa de los cambios de movimiento originados en estos cuerpos por la acción de fuerzas.
- 2Pieza, resorte o grupo de ellos que proporcionan el movimiento a un artefacto o ingenio.
- 3En el ejército: orden, disciplina y cuidado de los efectos de la tropa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emcánica,mceánica,meccánica,mecnáica,mecáinca,mecáncia,mecániac,mecánicca,mecánnica,meácnica,mmecánica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mecánica
Misspelling Variants of "mecánica"
Frequency rank: #5,856 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: