Messina
/mesˈsi.na/
The verdict
“Messina” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,682 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,682
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mesina, Micina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-messina · Messina · Spanish
Messina · rank #58,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,682
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mermar
Nearest frequency peer: mermar (-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 “Messina”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- meada
meada
41,325 corpus weight
- menosprecia
menosprecia
41,321 corpus weight
- mermar
mermar
41,320 corpus weight
- Messina
Messina
41,319 corpus weight
- mim
mim
41,316 corpus weight
- mitral
mitral
41,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Messina” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Messina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /mesˈsi.na/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Messina” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Messina is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,682 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /mesˈsi.na/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Messina, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Messina, spelled M-E-S-S-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Mesina, Micina.
- 2Apellido.
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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