mulher

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#200

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

mulher is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pessoa do sexo ou gênero feminino, geralmente, mas não exclusivamente, adulta It ranks #200 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with murder and multar.

Key facts for mulher
PropertyValue
Headwordmulher
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#200
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mulher in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for mulher is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #200 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mulher, with forms such as "mluher", "mmulher", and "muhler". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "murder", "multar", "molhe", and more, 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 mulher, spelled M-U-L-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    pessoa do sexo ou gênero feminino, geralmente, mas não exclusivamente, adulta
  2. 2
    fêmea da espécie humana
  3. 3
    aquela que atingiu a puberdade, moça
  4. 4
    cônjuge do sexo feminino; esposa
  5. 5
    amante

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mluher,mmulher,muhler,mulehr,mulherr,mulhher,mulhre,mullher,umlher

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mulher

Misspelling Variants of "mulher"

mluher6mmulher7muhler6mulehr6mulherr7mulhher7mulhre6mullher7
Misspelling Variants of "mulher"

Frequency rank: #200 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mulher"?
"mulher" is spelled M-U-L-H-E-R.
What does "mulher" mean?
As a noun, "mulher" means: pessoa do sexo ou gênero feminino, geralmente, mas não exclusivamente, adulta
What words are commonly confused with "mulher"?
"mulher" is commonly confused with "murder", "multar", "molhe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "mulher" come from?
"mulher" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.