menguado
[mẽŋˈgwað̞o]
The verdict
“menguado” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,357 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,357
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participio de menguar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-menguado · menguado · Spanish
menguado · rank #79,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,357
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH merda
Nearest frequency peer: merda (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “menguado”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mayhem
mayhem
20,650 corpus weight
- mediadas
mediadas
20,648 corpus weight
- mejoré
mejoré
20,646 corpus weight
- menguado
menguado
20,644 corpus weight
- merda
merda
20,643 corpus weight
- mimetismo
mimetismo
20,639 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “menguado” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menguado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mẽŋˈgwað̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “menguado” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
menguado is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,357 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [mẽŋˈgwað̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participio de menguar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for menguado, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is menguado, spelled M-E-N-G-U-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Participio de menguar.
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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