mesquin
/mɛs.kɛ̃/
The verdict
“mesquin” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mezquino, despreciable.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mesquin · mesquin · Spanish
mesquin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | mesquin |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /mɛs.kɛ̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mesquin” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mesquin is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /mɛs.kɛ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mezquino, despreciable.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mesquin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is mesquin, spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Mezquino, despreciable.
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.