menguante
[mẽŋˈgwãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“menguante” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,400 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,400
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que mengua.
Corpus desk
Index ES-menguante · menguante · Spanish
menguante · rank #50,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,400
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mencionaban
Nearest frequency peer: mencionaban (-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 “menguante”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- mecanización
mecanización
49,604 corpus weight
- mencionaban
mencionaban
49,602 corpus weight
- menguante
menguante
49,601 corpus weight
- menoscabo
menoscabo
49,600 corpus weight
- mentada
mentada
49,599 corpus weight
- mentado
mentado
49,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “menguante” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menguante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [mẽŋˈgwãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “menguante” en español
Rare enough to double-check
menguante is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,400 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [mẽŋˈgwãn̪t̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que mengua.".
menguante has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is menguante, spelled M-E-N-G-U-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Que mengua.
This word in other languages
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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