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muleta

noun

muleta is spelled M-U-L-E-T-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, muleta means “A red flag used by bullfighters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of muleta is muletas.

How many letters and syllables are in muleta?

Letters6: M-U-L-E-T-A
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is muleta?

Muleta appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with muleta?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as muleta.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: amulet.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of muleta

  • muletas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does muleta mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A red flag used by bullfighters.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Muleta in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense (bullfighting) red flag:

LanguageWords
Frenchmuleta
Spanishmuleta

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does muleta come from?

Borrowed from Spanish muleta, diminutive of mula (“mule”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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