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menhir

Spanish, noun/meˈniɾ/

menhir is spelled M-E-N-H-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish, the 172,602nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Menhir is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “menhir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Monumento primitivo formado por una piedra sin labrar asentada verticalmente en el suelo”.

What does menhir mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemenhir

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Monumento primitivo formado por una piedra sin labrar asentada verticalmente en el suelo.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of menhir

  • menhires plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce menhir?

  • /meˈniɾ/
  • [meˈniɾ]
  • [mẽnˈiɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to menhir

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is menhir in Spanish?

menhir appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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