menea
[meˈnea]
The verdict
“menea” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,767 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,767
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de menear o de menearse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-menea · menea · Spanish
menea · rank #51,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,767
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mead
Nearest frequency peer: mead (-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 “menea”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- masía
masía
48,237 corpus weight
- mead
mead
48,235 corpus weight
- menea
menea
48,234 corpus weight
- meri
meri
48,233 corpus weight
- metabólico
metabólico
48,232 corpus weight
- metalúrgico
metalúrgico
48,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “menea” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [meˈnea] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “menea” en español
Rare enough to double-check
menea is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,767 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [meˈnea]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
menea has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 menea, spelled M-E-N-E-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de menear o de menearse.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de menear.
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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