muela
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,412
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
muela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Disco de piedra que girando sobre otro o sobre la solera, muele lo que se interpone entre ambas piedras. Pronounced [ˈmwela]. Often confused with musa and mula.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmwela] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for muela is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmwela]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,412 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for muela, with forms such as "meula", "mmuela", and "mueal". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "musa", "mula", "muere", 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 muela, spelled M-U-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Disco de piedra que girando sobre otro o sobre la solera, muele lo que se interpone entre ambas piedras.
- 2Piedra de asperón en forma de disco, que, al hacerla girar, se usa para afilar cualquier clase de herramientas.
- 3Cada uno de los dientes que van detras de los caninos y premolares, cuya función es moler los alimentos masticados.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: meula,mmuela,mueal,muella,mulea,umela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for muela
Misspelling Variants of "muela"
Frequency rank: #21,412 in Spanish
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