mulato
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,811
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
mulato is anSpanishadj. It means: Aplícase a la persona que ha nacido de madre negra y padre blanco, o al contrario. Pronounced [muˈlat̪o]. Often confused with multa and muleta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulato |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [muˈlat̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mulato is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muˈlat̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,811 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for mulato, with forms such as "mluato", "mmulato", and "mualto". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "multa", "muleta", "multado", 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 mulato, spelled M-U-L-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aplícase a la persona que ha nacido de madre negra y padre blanco, o al contrario.
- 2De color moreno.
- 3Dícese de lo que es moreno en su línea.
- 4Variante obsoleta de muleto.
- 5Mineral de plata de color oscuro o verde cobrizo.
- 6Especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Mimidae endémica de México. Es un ave canora de unos 25 cm de longitud. Los sexos son parecidos, con el plumaje gris azuloso oscuro y opaco; las partes ventrales más oscuras. Alrededor del ojo rojo, hay una máscara de plumas negras que se extiende desde la base del pico hasta las mejillas. El pico y las patas también son negros. Se distingue de su pariente cercano sureño, el mulato pechiblanco (Melanotis hypoleucus) por la ausencia de plumas blancas y la presencia de plumas erizadas en la garganta. El canto es similar al del cenzontle aliblanco (Mimus polyglottos), por lo que estas aves llegan a ser capturadas y domesticadas.
- 7(Pollalesta discolor) Árbol colombiano de hasta 8 m de altura, ramificado en la parte media superior, con tallos grisáceos y un poco rugosos, hojas alternadas y lanceoladas, y flores pequeñas agrupadas en cabezuelas con forma de parasol.
- 8Palo marimba.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mluato,mmulato,mualto,mulaot,mulatto,mullato,multao,umlato
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mulato
Misspelling Variants of "mulato"
Frequency rank: #49,811 in Spanish
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