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mentira

Spanish, noun

mentira is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “lie, trick, falsity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, mentirá is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of mentir”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de mentir”.

What does mentira mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininelie, trick, falsity

    Parecía mentira que su cuerpo fuera tan hermoso.

verb

as mentirá
  1. 1

    third-person singular future indicative of mentir

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Acción o efecto de mentir. 2. Por extensión, expresión o manifestación que se hace mintiendo. 3. Error involuntario en un texto manuscrito o impreso. 4. Mancha pálida que aparece en las uñas ^([cita requerida]).

interjection: 1. Se suele emplear cuando lo que dice otra persona no es cierto.

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.

Forms of mentira

  • mentiras plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to mentira

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is mentira in Spanish?

mentira appears 43 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).