menina
[meˈnina]
The verdict
“menina” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,114 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,114
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mujer puesta desde corta edad al servicio cortesano de la reina o su descendencia femenina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-menina · menina · Spanish
menina · rank #90,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,114
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,142
- PHOTO-FINISH mejoremos
Nearest frequency peer: mejoremos (-3 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 “menina”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- married
married
9,897 corpus weight
- mayu
mayu
9,894 corpus weight
- medos
medos
9,892 corpus weight
- mees
mees
9,891 corpus weight
- mejoremos
mejoremos
9,890 corpus weight
- menina
menina
9,887 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “menina” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈnina] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “menina” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
menina is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,114 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [meˈnina]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mujer puesta desde corta edad al servicio cortesano de la reina o su descendencia femenina.".
No misspelling variants are generated for menina in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is menina, spelled M-E-N-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Mujer puesta desde corta edad al servicio cortesano de la reina o su descendencia femenina.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how menina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Huérfana a temprana edad, fue recogida y educada por su tío Luis de Alquézar, secretario del rey. Introducida en la corte, fue menina de la reina.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.