maçã
/mɐ.ˈsɐ̃/
The verdict
“maçã” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,309) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,309
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o fruto comestível da macieira
Corpus desk
Index PT-maca · maçã · Portuguese
maçã · rank #7,309 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,309
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH money
Nearest frequency peer: money (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “maçã”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- legalmente
legalmente
92,696 corpus weight
- maçã
maçã
92,692 corpus weight
- money
money
92,691 corpus weight
- panela
panela
92,686 corpus weight
- petição
petição
92,684 corpus weight
- porcaria
porcaria
92,681 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “maçã” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | maçã |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.ˈsɐ̃/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “maçã”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for maçã is neighbouring look-alikes ("mas", "mãe", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mɐ.ˈsɐ̃/. Frequency #7,309 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Gloss: "o fruto comestível da macieira".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for maçã, with forms such as "amçã", "maãç", and "mmaçã". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mas", "mãe", "mal", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 maçã, spelled M-A-Ç-Ã.
Definition
- 1o fruto comestível da macieira
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amçã
- maãç
- mmaçã
- mçaã
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maçã - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maçã", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).