mellar
[meˈʝaɾ]
The verdict
“mellar” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer mellas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mellar · mellar · Spanish
mellar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mellar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [meˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mellar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mellar is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [meˈʝaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mellar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 mellar, spelled M-E-L-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer mellas.
- 2Menoscabar, disminuir, minorar una cosa no material.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mellar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mellar la espada. Mellar el plato.
Contaba con tres hachas grandes y muchas pequeñas, pero se habían mellado y desafilado de tanto tallar y cortar maderas duras y nudosas ….
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.