mussarela
The verdict
“mussarela” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,543 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,543
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grafia alternativa de muçarela
Corpus desk
Index PT-mussarela · mussarela · Portuguese
mussarela · rank #54,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,543
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH multimilionár…
Nearest frequency peer: multimilionário (-1 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “mussarela”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- multimilion…
multimilionário
45,459 corpus weight
- mussarela
mussarela
45,458 corpus weight
- nap
nap
45,455 corpus weight
- needle
needle
45,450 corpus weight
- Núbia
Núbia
45,443 corpus weight
- núncio
núncio
45,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mussarela” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mussarela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mussarela” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mussarela is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,543 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "grafia alternativa de muçarela".
Zero misspellings are on record for mussarela in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is mussarela, spelled M-U-S-S-A-R-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1grafia alternativa de muçarela
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mussarela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O governo italiano ordenou nesta sexta-feira, 28, a retirada do mercado do queijo tipo mussarela de 25 produtores da região da Campania.
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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