medialuna
[með̞jaˈluna]
The verdict
“medialuna” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,692 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,692
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manjar de repostería, de masa rica en grasa o mantequilla, o pan o bollo, con forma de luna en cuarto creciente o menguante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-medialuna · medialuna · Spanish
medialuna · rank #53,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,692
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mecanizada
Nearest frequency peer: mecanizada (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “medialuna”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- matinales
matinales
46,313 corpus weight
- Maury
Maury
46,312 corpus weight
- mecanizada
mecanizada
46,310 corpus weight
- medialuna
medialuna
46,309 corpus weight
- memos
memos
46,307 corpus weight
- mensajera
mensajera
46,306 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “medialuna” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medialuna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [með̞jaˈluna] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “medialuna” en español
Rare enough to double-check
medialuna is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,692 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [með̞jaˈluna]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for medialuna, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is medialuna, spelled M-E-D-I-A-L-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Manjar de repostería, de masa rica en grasa o mantequilla, o pan o bollo, con forma de luna en cuarto creciente o menguante.
- 2Zona en forma de media luna que, junto al área grande, está vedada a los jugadores durante la ejecución de un penal en un partido de fútbol.
- 3Escenario deportivo en forma de media luna que alberga el rodeo chileno.
This word in other languages
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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