mulo
[ˈmulo]
The verdict
“mulo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #59,462 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #59,462
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Equus africanus asinus × E. caballus) Animal híbrido, producto del cruce entre un asno y una yegua. Su aspecto es intermedio entre las dos especies, con la cabeza, orejas y extremidades semejantes...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmulo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mulo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mulo is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,462 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mulo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 mulo, spelled M-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Equus africanus asinus × E. caballus) Animal híbrido, producto del cruce entre un asno y una yegua. Su aspecto es intermedio entre las dos especies, con la cabeza, orejas y extremidades semejantes a las de un asno y el tamaño, pelaje y dentadura de un caballo. Se crían por su combinación de la fuerza de un caballo y la resistencia y paso seguro de un asno, que las hacen útiles como animales de carga, particularmente en terrenos agrestes. La mayor parte de las mulas son estériles.
- 2(Equus caballus × E. africanus asinus) Por extensión, animal híbrido nacido de la cruza entre un caballo y una burra. Es más dificil de criar que la mula₁ y no tiene las mismas aptitudes como animal de carga.
- 3Persona que carga con el trabajo más pesado.
- 4Persona que transporta drogas ilegales.
This word in other languages
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 “mulo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-U-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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