moldura

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for moldura is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #20,947 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "caixilho de madeira, metal ou outro material para guarnecer quadros, espelhos, etc".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for moldura, with forms such as "mlodura", "mmoldura", and "modlura". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "moldar", 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 Portuguese form is moldura, spelled M-O-L-D-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.