metal
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,000
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
metal is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo simple, sólido a la temperatura ordinaria, a excepción del mercurio, conductor del calor y de la electricidad, y que se distingue de los demás sólidos por su brillo especial. Pronounced [meˈt̪al]. It ranks #3,000 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mete and meto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | metal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈt̪al] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for metal is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈt̪al]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,000 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for metal, with forms such as "emtal", "meatl", and "metall". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mete", "meto", "metí", and more, 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 metal, spelled M-E-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuerpo simple, sólido a la temperatura ordinaria, a excepción del mercurio, conductor del calor y de la electricidad, y que se distingue de los demás sólidos por su brillo especial.
- 2Azófar o latón.
- 3Timbre de la voz.
- 4Calidad o condición de algo.
- 5Oro o plata, que respectivamente suelen representarse con los colores amarillo y blanco.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emtal,meatl,metall,metla,mettal,mmetal,mteal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for metal
Misspelling Variants of "metal"
Frequency rank: #3,000 in Spanish
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