mencionan

/[mẽnˈsjonãn]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,989

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

mencionan is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mencionar. Pronounced [mẽnˈsjonãn]. It ranks #8,989 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with menciono and mencione.

Key facts for mencionan
PropertyValue
Headwordmencionan
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[mẽnˈsjonãn]
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,989
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mencionan in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mencionan is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mẽnˈsjonãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,989 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mencionar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for mencionan, with forms such as "emncionan", "mecnionan", and "menccionan". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "menciono", "mencione", "mencionar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is mencionan, spelled M-E-N-C-I-O-N-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mencionar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emncionan,mecnionan,menccionan,mencinoan,mencioann,mencionann,mencionnan,mencoinan,meniconan,menncionan,mensionan,mmencionan,mnecionan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mencionan

Misspelling Variants of "mencionan"

emncionan9mecnionan9menccionan10mencinoan9mencioann9mencionann10mencionnan10mencoinan9
Misspelling Variants of "mencionan"

Frequency rank: #8,989 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mencionan"?
"mencionan" is spelled M-E-N-C-I-O-N-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [mẽnˈsjonãn].
What does "mencionan" mean?
As a verb, "mencionan" means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mencionar.
What words are commonly confused with "mencionan"?
"mencionan" is commonly confused with "menciono", "mencione", "mencionar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mencionan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mencionan" is [mẽnˈsjonãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mencionan" come from?
"mencionan" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.