mulatto
/mʊˈlɑtoʊ/
"mulatto" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mulatto” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,910. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,910
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mulatto · mulatto · English
mulatto · rank #48,910 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,910
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH muda
Nearest frequency peer: muda (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “mulatto”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- moribund
moribund
51,095 corpus weight
- Mortensen
Mortensen
51,094 corpus weight
- muda
muda
51,092 corpus weight
- mulatto
mulatto
51,091 corpus weight
- multicast
multicast
51,090 corpus weight
- musicianship
musicianship
51,088 corpus weight
What this shows “mulatto” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulatto |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mʊˈlɑtoʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mulatto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around mulatto (IPA /mʊˈlɑtoʊ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,910 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mulatto, with forms such as "mluatto", "mmulatto", and "mualtto". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules. The correct English form is mulatto, spelled M-U-L-A-T-T-O.
Definition
- 1A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mulatto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships […]
The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mluatto
- mmulatto
- mualtto
- mulato
- mulatot
- mullatto
- multato
- umlatto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mulatto - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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