ménsula
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ménsula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los brazos que a ambos lados del transmisor telefónico suelen ponerse para apoyo de los codos de la persona que lo usa. Pronounced [ˈmẽnsula].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ménsula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmẽnsula] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ménsula is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmẽnsula]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ménsula in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ménsula, spelled M-É-N-S-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los brazos que a ambos lados del transmisor telefónico suelen ponerse para apoyo de los codos de la persona que lo usa.
- 2Miembro de arquitectura perfilado con diversas molduras, que sobresale de un plano vertical y sirve para sostener o recibir alguna cosa.
- 3Parte delantera de los aparatos de ortodoncia fijos.^([cita requerida])
- 4Nombre poco utilizado de los aparatos de ortodoncia removibles. Es más usado el vocablo en inglés, brackets.^([cita requerida])
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