mercal
/meɾˈkal/
The verdict
“mercal” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,176 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,176
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comprar, Mercar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mercal · mercal · Spanish
mercal · rank #92,176 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,176
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH merecerían
Nearest frequency peer: merecerían (+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 “mercal”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- megabytes
megabytes
7,829 corpus weight
- mejorana
mejorana
7,828 corpus weight
- mercal
mercal
7,825 corpus weight
- merecerían
merecerían
7,824 corpus weight
- meretriz
meretriz
7,823 corpus weight
- Messer
Messer
7,822 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “mercal” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /meɾˈkal/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mercal” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mercal is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,176 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /meɾˈkal/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Comprar, Mercar.".
mercal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mercal, spelled M-E-R-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Comprar, Mercar.
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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