mental

/[mẽn̪ˈt̪al]/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,402

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mental is anSpanishadj. It means: Propio o relacionado con la mente. Pronounced [mẽn̪ˈt̪al]. It ranks #2,402 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with meta and mente.

Key facts for mental
PropertyValue
Headwordmental
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,402
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mental in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mental is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mẽn̪ˈt̪al]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,402 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Propio o relacionado con la mente.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mental, with forms such as "emntal", "menatl", and "menntal". 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, "meta", "mente", "metal", 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 mental, spelled M-E-N-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propio o relacionado con la mente.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emntal,menatl,menntal,mentall,mentla,menttal,metnal,mmental,mnetal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mental

Misspelling Variants of "mental"

emntal6menatl6menntal7mentall7mentla6menttal7metnal6mmental7
Misspelling Variants of "mental"

Frequency rank: #2,402 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mental"?
"mental" is spelled M-E-N-T-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [mẽn̪ˈt̪al].
What does "mental" mean?
As an adj, "mental" means: Propio o relacionado con la mente.
What words are commonly confused with "mental"?
"mental" is commonly confused with "meta", "mente", "metal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mental"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mental" is [mẽn̪ˈt̪al]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mental" come from?
"mental" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.