mortadela
/muɾ.tɐ.ˈdɛ.lɐ/
The verdict
“mortadela” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,817
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,261
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - um tipo de salpicão grande, originário de Itália e feito de mistura de carne de porco com carne de vaca:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mortadela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /muɾ.tɐ.ˈdɛ.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mortadela” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around mortadela (IPA /muɾ.tɐ.ˈdɛ.lɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,817 among 2,261 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "um tipo de salpicão grande, originário de Itália e feito de mistura de carne de porco com carne de vaca:".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for mortadela, with forms such as "mmortadela", "moratdela", and "morrtadela". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is mortadela, spelled M-O-R-T-A-D-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1um tipo de salpicão grande, originário de Itália e feito de mistura de carne de porco com carne de vaca:
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmortadela
- moratdela
- morrtadela
- mortaddela
- mortadeal
- mortadella
- mortadlea
- mortaedla
- mortdaela
- morttadela
- motradela
- mrotadela
- omrtadela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mortadela - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “mortadela”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-O-R-T-A-D-E-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /muɾ.tɐ.ˈdɛ.lɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.