mecánico
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,596
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
mecánico is anSpanishadj. It means: Propio de la mecánica o relacionado con ella. Pronounced [meˈkaniko]. It ranks #7,596 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with metálico and mecanismo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mecánico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [meˈkaniko] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mecánico is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈkaniko]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,596 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 mecánico, with forms such as "emcánico", "mceánico", and "meccánico". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "metálico", "mecanismo", "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 mecánico, spelled M-E-C-Á-N-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Propio de la mecánica o relacionado con ella.
- 2Propio de una máquina o relacionado con ella.
- 3Hecho de forma irreflexiva y automáticamente.
- 4Se dice del elemento que produce sobre una superficie sólida un daño o efecto , tal como el roce, erosión o choque.
- 5Se dice del trabajo u oficio que no requiere capacidad intelectual, sino solo habilidad manual.
- 6Se dice de la persona que tiene un oficio que solo necesita habilidad manual.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emcánico,mceánico,meccánico,mecnáico,mecáinco,mecáncio,mecánicco,mecánioc,mecánnico,meácnico,mmecánico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mecánico
Misspelling Variants of "mecánico"
Frequency rank: #7,596 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: