mecía
[meˈsia]
The verdict
“mecía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,519 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,519
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de mecer o de mecerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mecia · mecía · Spanish
mecía · rank #96,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,142
- PHOTO-FINISH mearse
Nearest frequency peer: mearse (-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 “mecía”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- masturbas
masturbas
3,488 corpus weight
- meaba
meaba
3,485 corpus weight
- meados
meados
3,484 corpus weight
- mearse
mearse
3,483 corpus weight
- mecía
mecía
3,482 corpus weight
- menosprecia…
menospreciada
3,476 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mecía” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mecía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [meˈsia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mecía” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mecía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,519 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [meˈsia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mecía doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mecía, spelled M-E-C-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de mecer o de mecerse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de mecer o de mecerse.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mecía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 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.