muleta
/mu.ˈle.tɐ/
The verdict
“muleta” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #40,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,691
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pau em que se apoiam os coxos ou aleijados das pernas
Corpus desk
Index PT-muleta · muleta · Portuguese
muleta · rank #40,691 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,691
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH milímetro
Nearest frequency peer: milímetro (-8 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “muleta”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- masmorra
masmorra
59,327 corpus weight
- milímetro
milímetro
59,318 corpus weight
- muleta
muleta
59,310 corpus weight
- nominalmente
nominalmente
59,298 corpus weight
- normativo
normativo
59,297 corpus weight
- numericamen…
numericamente
59,296 corpus weight
What this shows “muleta” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | muleta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mu.ˈle.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “muleta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around muleta (IPA /mu.ˈle.tɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,691 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for muleta, with forms such as "mlueta", "mmuleta", and "muelta". 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. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "multa", "multar", "meta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 muleta, spelled M-U-L-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1pau em que se apoiam os coxos ou aleijados das pernas
- 2pau em que o toureiro suspende a capa para chamar o touro que quer matar
- 3manivela de realejo
- 4pequena embarcação com que se faz pescaria, fora da barra de Lisboa
- 5forcado de ferro com que se empurra o barco, do lado da proa
- 6apoio, amparo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mlueta
- mmuleta
- muelta
- muleat
- muletta
- mulleta
- multea
- umleta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muleta - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "muleta"?
What does "muleta" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "muleta"?
How do you pronounce "muleta"?
What language does "muleta" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "muleta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).