-miento
Spanish, suffix
-miento is spelled M-I-E-N-T-O (6 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 11,540th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -miento is a Spanish masculine suffix meaning “-ment; forms nouns from verbs with the sense of the action or process” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, miento is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of mentir”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Forma sustantivos masculinos a partir de verbos, con el significado de "proceso, resultado o acción" de lo…”.
What does -miento mean in English?
suffix
- 1
masculine-ment; forms nouns from verbs with the sense of the action or process
sentir (“to feel”) + -miento → sentimiento (“feeling”)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of mentir
- 2
first-person singular present indicative of mentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Forma sustantivos masculinos a partir de verbos, con el significado de "proceso, resultado o acción" de lo indicado por el verbo base.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to -miento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -miento in Spanish?
-miento appears 5.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).