menguar
[mẽŋˈgwaɾ]
The verdict
“menguar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,120 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,120
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disminuir o irse consumiendo física o moralmente una cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-menguar · menguar · Spanish
menguar · rank #84,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,120
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH menguando
Nearest frequency peer: menguando (-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 “menguar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- materializan
materializan
15,887 corpus weight
- mazamorra
mazamorra
15,885 corpus weight
- menguando
menguando
15,882 corpus weight
- menguar
menguar
15,881 corpus weight
- menudencias
menudencias
15,880 corpus weight
- merde
merde
15,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “menguar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menguar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mẽŋˈgwaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “menguar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
menguar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,120 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [mẽŋˈgwaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for menguar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 menguar, spelled M-E-N-G-U-A-R.
Definition
- 1Disminuir o irse consumiendo física o moralmente una cosa.
- 2En particular, dicho de un astro, reducirse la superficie que del mismo resulta visible a simple vista.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menguar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mis provisiones de comida comenzaron a menguar.
Desde que Grecia fue “rescatada”, el paro se ha duplicado, los sueldos han bajado entre un 20% y un 30%, un 13% de las familias ha perdido todos sus ingresos y la economía no ha parado de menguar.
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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