mecate
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#99,807
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mecate is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerda o cordel de fibra áspera y rústica de considerable grosor. Pronounced [meˈkat̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mecate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈkat̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mecate is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈkat̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #99,807 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mecate in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 mecate, spelled M-E-C-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuerda o cordel de fibra áspera y rústica de considerable grosor.
- 2Medida de longitud, equivalente a 20 m, usada en la milpa y en las haciendas henequeneras.
- 3Medida de superficie, equivalente a 400 m², usada en la milpa y en las haciendas henequeneras.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #99,807 in Spanish
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