mordaça
/muɾ.ˈda.sɐ/
The verdict
“mordaça” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #36,556 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #36,556
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - objeto com que se tapa a boca a alguém para que não fale
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordaça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /muɾ.ˈda.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mordaça” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mordaça is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /muɾ.ˈda.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #36,556 in overall Portuguese 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mordaça, with forms such as "mmordaça", "modraça", and "moradça". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mordida", "morada", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct Portuguese form is mordaça, spelled M-O-R-D-A-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1objeto com que se tapa a boca a alguém para que não fale
- 2açaimo para animais
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmordaça,modraça,moradça,mordaaç,morddaça,mordçaa,morrdaça,mrodaça,omrdaça
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mordaça - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mordaça”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-O-R-D-A-Ç-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /muɾ.ˈda.sɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “mordida” - see the side-by-side comparison. mordaça vs mordida
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.