mordía
[moɾˈð̞ia]
The verdict
“mordía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,131 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,131
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de morder.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [moɾˈð̞ia] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mordía” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mordía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,131 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [moɾˈð̞ia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mordía, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mordía, spelled M-O-R-D-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de morder.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de morder.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mordía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-O-R-D-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [moɾˈð̞ia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.