muelles
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muelles |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmweʝes] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Tenazas 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"
Frequency rank: #16,393 in Spanish
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