mentar
[mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“mentar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,777 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,777
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Decir el nombre o hacer mención de alguien o de algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mentar · mentar · Spanish
mentar · rank #64,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,777
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH meterán
Nearest frequency peer: meterán (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mentar”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- medianera
medianera
35,228 corpus weight
- medrar
medrar
35,227 corpus weight
- memoriales
memoriales
35,226 corpus weight
- mentar
mentar
35,224 corpus weight
- meterán
meterán
35,223 corpus weight
- mew
mew
35,222 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mentar” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “mentar” en la frecuencia del español
Rare enough to double-check
mentar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,777 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Decir el nombre o hacer mención de alguien o de algo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mentar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 mentar, spelled M-E-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Decir el nombre o hacer mención de alguien o de algo.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
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