mengua
[ˈmẽŋgwa]
The verdict
“mengua” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,593 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,593
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción y resultado de menguar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mengua · mengua · Spanish
mengua · rank #69,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,593
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Meer
Nearest frequency peer: Meer (-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 “mengua”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- maximización
maximización
30,413 corpus weight
- meadow
meadow
30,410 corpus weight
- Meer
Meer
30,409 corpus weight
- mengua
mengua
30,408 corpus weight
- mercedarios
mercedarios
30,406 corpus weight
- merecidamen…
merecidamente
30,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “mengua” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mengua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmẽŋgwa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mengua” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mengua is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,593 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmẽŋgwa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mengua, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is mengua, spelled M-E-N-G-U-A.
Definition
- 1Acción y resultado de menguar.
- 2Desprestigio o descrédito de una persona a causa de su comportamiento.
- 3Escasez de una cosa.
- 4Falta que hace incompleta una cosa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mengua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
-Por cierto, señor arzobispo Turpín, que es gran mengua de los que nos llamamos doce Pares dejar, tan sin más ni más, llevar la vitoria deste torneo a los caballeros cortesanos, habiendo nosotros los aventureros ganado el prez en los tres días antecedentes.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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