molleja

/[moˈʝexa]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#72,128

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

molleja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Porción del estómago de las aves que tritura el alimento por medio de movimientos musculares y la presencia de piedrecillas. Se encuentra entre el estómago glandular o proventrículo y el intestino. Pronounced [moˈʝexa].

Key facts for molleja
PropertyValue
Headwordmolleja
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[moˈʝexa]
Letters7
Frequency rank#72,128
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of molleja in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for molleja is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [moˈʝexa]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,128 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for molleja in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is molleja, spelled M-O-L-L-E-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Porción del estómago de las aves que tritura el alimento por medio de movimientos musculares y la presencia de piedrecillas. Se encuentra entre el estómago glandular o proventrículo y el intestino.
  2. 2
    Estómago muscular de otros grupos de animales, vertebrados o invertebrados, que funciona de modo análogo a la molleja₁.
  3. 3
    Timo de res, usado como ingrediente de algunos platos, que se sustituye muchas veces por la parótida o glándula salival, de sabor y consistencia muy similares.

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Frequency rank: #72,128 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "molleja"?
"molleja" is spelled M-O-L-L-E-J-A. The IPA pronunciation is [moˈʝexa].
What does "molleja" mean?
As a noun, "molleja" means: Porción del estómago de las aves que tritura el alimento por medio de movimientos musculares y la presencia de piedrecillas. Se encuentra entre el estómago glandular o proventrículo y el intestino.
How do you pronounce "molleja"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "molleja" is [moˈʝexa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "molleja" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.