muslo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,078
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
muslo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte superior de la pierna, situada entre la cadera y la rodilla y en la que se encuentra el fémur. Pronounced [ˈmuslo]. Often confused with must and mutuo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muslo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmuslo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for muslo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmuslo]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,078 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for muslo, with forms such as "mmuslo", "msulo", and "mulso". 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, "must", "mutuo", "muslos", 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 muslo, spelled M-U-S-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte superior de la pierna, situada entre la cadera y la rodilla y en la que se encuentra el fémur.
- 2Parte equivalente del cuerpo de algunos animales, especialmente las aves, considerada como alimento
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmuslo,msulo,mulso,musllo,musol,musslo,umslo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for muslo
Misspelling Variants of "muslo"
Frequency rank: #21,078 in Spanish
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