medialuna
[með̞jaˈluna]
The verdict
“medialuna” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,692 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,692
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Manjar de repostería, de masa rica en grasa o mantequilla, o pan o bollo, con forma de luna en cuarto creciente o menguante.
| 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) |
Where “medialuna” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
medialuna is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,692 among 36,142 “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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Using “medialuna”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-D-I-A-L-U-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [með̞jaˈluna] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.