mienten
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,645
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
mienten is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mentir. Pronounced [ˈmjẽn̪t̪ẽn]. Often confused with mientes and mientra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mienten |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmjẽn̪t̪ẽn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mienten is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmjẽn̪t̪ẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,645 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mienten, with forms such as "imenten", "meinten", and "mienetn". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "mientes", "mientra", "mente", 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 mienten, spelled M-I-E-N-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de mentir.
- 2Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de mentar.
- 3Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de mentar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imenten,meinten,mienetn,miennten,mientenn,mientne,mientten,mietnen,mineten,mmienten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mienten
Misspelling Variants of "mienten"
Frequency rank: #12,645 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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