portaminas
Spanish, noun/ˌpoɾtaˈminas/
portaminas is spelled P-O-R-T-A-M-I-N-A-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Spanish, the 144,191st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Portaminas is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “mechanical pencil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Caña con minas de grafito y un dispositivo mecánico para desplazarlas”.
What does portaminas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemechanical pencil
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caña con minas de grafito y un dispositivo mecánico para desplazarlas.
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.
How do you pronounce portaminas?
- /ˌpoɾtaˈminas/
- [ˌpoɾ.t̪aˈmi.nas]
- [poɾt̪aˈminas]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is portaminas in Spanish?
portaminas appears about once in every 15 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).