mece
[ˈmese]
The verdict
“mece” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,737 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,737
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mecer o de mecerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mece · mece · Spanish
mece · rank #68,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,737
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mejorías
Nearest frequency peer: mejorías (+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 “mece”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- matina
matina
31,269 corpus weight
- mece
mece
31,264 corpus weight
- mejorías
mejorías
31,263 corpus weight
- melatonina
melatonina
31,262 corpus weight
- menosprecian
menosprecian
31,260 corpus weight
- meteré
meteré
31,259 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mece” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mece |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmese] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “mece” en la frecuencia del español
Rare enough to double-check
mece is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,737 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈmese]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mece in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mece, spelled M-E-C-E.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mecer o de mecerse.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de mecer.
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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