mensa
[ˈmẽnsa]
The verdict
“mensa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,368 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,368
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de menso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mensa · mensa · Spanish
mensa · rank #54,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,368
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH meado
Nearest frequency peer: meado (-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 “mensa”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- mati
mati
45,638 corpus weight
- meado
meado
45,634 corpus weight
- mensa
mensa
45,633 corpus weight
- mezclaban
mezclaban
45,632 corpus weight
- midieron
midieron
45,631 corpus weight
- mioceno
mioceno
45,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “mensa” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mensa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmẽnsa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mensa” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mensa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,368 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈmẽnsa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de menso.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mensa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is mensa, spelled M-E-N-S-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de menso.
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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