venial
[beˈnjal]
The verdict
“venial” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que se opone levemente a la ley o precepto, y por eso es de fácil remisión o perdón.
Corpus desk
Index ES-venial · venial · Spanish
venial · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venial |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [beˈnjal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “venial” en español
Rare enough to double-check
venial is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [beˈnjal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que se opone levemente a la ley o precepto, y por eso es de fácil remisión o perdón.".
venial has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is venial, spelled V-E-N-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Que se opone levemente a la ley o precepto, y por eso es de fácil remisión o perdón.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how venial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
—Media hora nos basta. —No lo creo, padre; y debo advertirle que nunca hasta ahora hubo de escuchar una lista de pecados mortales y veniales tan larga como va a ser la mía.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.