mozzarella
[musaˈɾela]
The verdict
“mozzarella” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #57,944 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,944
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Queso fresco de cuajada estirada preparado con leche de búfala o de vaca, en formas redondas o trenzadas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mozzarella |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [musaˈɾela] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mozzarella” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mozzarella is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [musaˈɾela]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,944 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Queso fresco de cuajada estirada preparado con leche de búfala o de vaca, en formas redondas o trenzadas.".
mozzarella doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is mozzarella, spelled M-O-Z-Z-A-R-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Queso fresco de cuajada estirada preparado con leche de búfala o de vaca, en formas redondas o trenzadas.
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 “mozzarella”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-O-Z-Z-A-R-E-L-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [musaˈɾela] (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.