menos
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#109
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
menos is anSpanishadv. It means: Comparativo irregular de poco, que indica disminución o inferioridad. Pronounced [ˈmenos]. It ranks #109 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mes and meo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [ˈmenos] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for menos is 5 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmenos]. Corpus data places it at rank #109 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for menos, with forms such as "emnos", "mennos", and "menoss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mes", "meo", "míos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is menos, spelled M-E-N-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Comparativo irregular de poco, que indica disminución o inferioridad.
- 2Cuando acompaña a una cantidad, indica que hay un cierto número indeterminado e inferior de la misma.
- 3En oraciones negativas, introduce un argumento que refuerza la negación.
- 4Introduce una idea de rechazo más poderosa que otra que se menciona.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emnos,mennos,menoss,menso,meons,mmenos,mneos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for menos
Misspelling Variants of "menos"
Frequency rank: #109 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: