mordaza
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,806
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
mordaza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cinta o pañuelo que se ata a la boca de una persona para evitar que hable. Pronounced [moɾˈð̞asa]. Often confused with mostaza and mordida.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordaza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [moɾˈð̞asa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mordaza is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [moɾˈð̞asa]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,806 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mordaza, with forms such as "mmordaza", "modraza", and "moradza". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "mostaza", "mordida", "morada", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mordaza, spelled M-O-R-D-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cinta o pañuelo que se ata a la boca de una persona para evitar que hable.
- 2Pequeña cuerda atada a un cabo de madera, con la que se hace mordaza a un caballo.
- 3Herramienta que mediante un mecanismo de husillo o de otro tipo permite sujetar por fricción una pieza presionándola en forma continua.
- 4Sargento (herramienta). ^([cita requerida])
- 5Instrumento compuesto de dos piezas semicilíndricas de madera dura, entre las cuales se sujeta convenientemente la parte alta del escroto, para evitar derrames en la castración.
- 6Máquina sencilla de hierro colocada en la cubierta del buque y que, cerrando sobre el canto de la gatera, detiene e impide la salida de la cadena del ancla.
- 7Aparato empleado en algunos montajes con objeto de disminuir el retroceso de las piezas de artillería.
- 8Utensilio cilíndrico de madera con una hendidura por donde pasa el tiento de cuero para ser ablandado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmordaza,modraza,moradza,mordaaz,mordazza,morddaza,mordzaa,morrdaza,mrodaza,omrdaza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mordaza
Misspelling Variants of "mordaza"
Frequency rank: #19,806 in Spanish
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