mercenario

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mercenario is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meɾseˈnaɾjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,134 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Soldado que sirve en la guerra a un país extranjero, a cambio de un salario.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for mercenario, with forms such as "emrcenario", "mecrenario", and "merccenario". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "mercenarios", 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 mercenario, spelled M-E-R-C-E-N-A-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.