mercado negro
[meɾˈkað̞o ˈneɣ̞ɾo]
The verdict
“mercado negro” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transacción clandestina de divisas o de mercancías que no cumplen con las obligaciones legales, ya sea porque sean robadas, contrabando, tengan algún origen fraudulento o infrinjan alguna ley.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mercado-negro · mercado negro · Spanish
mercado negro · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercado negro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [meɾˈkað̞o ˈneɣ̞ɾo] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mercado negro” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mercado negro is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [meɾˈkað̞o ˈneɣ̞ɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mercado negro has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mercado negro, spelled M-E-R-C-A-D-O- -N-E-G-R-O.
Definition
- 1Transacción clandestina de divisas o de mercancías que no cumplen con las obligaciones legales, ya sea porque sean robadas, contrabando, tengan algún origen fraudulento o infrinjan alguna ley.
- 2Transacción clandestina de productos escasos hecha por mafias que se aprovechan de la necesidad de las personas para estafarlas.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.