mozzarella
Portuguese, noun/mot.saˈɾɛ.lɐ/
mozzarella is spelled M-O-Z-Z-A-R-E-L-L-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mozzarella is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of mozarela” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “moçarela, mozarela, muçarela, mussarela, muzarela”.
What does mozzarella mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of mozarela
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. moçarela, mozarela, muçarela, mussarela, muzarela
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mozzarella
- mozzarellas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mozzarella?
- Brazil /mot.saˈɾɛ.lɐ/
- Portugal /mu.zɐˈɾɛ.lɐ/
- Portugal /mɔ.zaˈɾɛ.lɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mozzarella in Portuguese?
mozzarella appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).