muelles

/[ˈmweʝes]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,393

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

muelles is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tenazas grandes que se usan en las casas de moneda para agarrar los rieles y tejos durante la fundición y echarlos en la copela. Pronounced [ˈmweʝes]. Often confused with mueres and mueves.

Key facts for muelles
PropertyValue
Headwordmuelles
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈmweʝes]
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,393
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for muelles is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmweʝes]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,393 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tenazas grandes que se usan en las casas de moneda para agarrar los rieles y tejos durante la fundición y echarlos en la copela.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for muelles, with forms such as "meulles", "mmuelles", and "muelels". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "mueres", "mueves", "muller", 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 muelles, spelled M-U-E-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tenazas grandes que se usan en las casas de moneda para agarrar los rieles y tejos durante la fundición y echarlos en la copela.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: meulles,mmuelles,muelels,mueles,muelless,muellse,muleles,umelles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for muelles

Misspelling Variants of "muelles"

meulles7mmuelles8muelels7mueles6muelless8muellse7muleles7umelles7
Misspelling Variants of "muelles"

Frequency rank: #16,393 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "muelles"?
"muelles" is spelled M-U-E-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmweʝes].
What does "muelles" mean?
As a noun, "muelles" means: Tenazas grandes que se usan en las casas de moneda para agarrar los rieles y tejos durante la fundición y echarlos en la copela.
What words are commonly confused with "muelles"?
"muelles" is commonly confused with "mueres", "mueves", "muller". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "muelles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muelles" is [ˈmweʝes]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muelles" come from?
"muelles" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.