machado
/mɐ.ˈʃa.du/
The verdict
“machado” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #2,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,891
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ferramenta cortante composta de um cabo (usualmente de madeira) e uma cabeça (usualmente de ferro) com gumes de um ou dois lados
Corpus desk
Index PT-machado · machado · Portuguese
machado · rank #2,891 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,891
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH Juan
Nearest frequency peer: Juan (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “machado”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Juan
Juan
97,111 corpus weight
- machado
machado
97,110 corpus weight
- Manuel
Manuel
97,108 corpus weight
- montanha
montanha
97,107 corpus weight
- novidade
novidade
97,106 corpus weight
- orçamento
orçamento
97,105 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “machado” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | machado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.ˈʃa.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “machado” fica na frequência do português
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around machado (IPA /mɐ.ˈʃa.du/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,891 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ferramenta cortante composta de um cabo (usualmente de madeira) e uma cabeça (usualmente de ferro) com gumes de um ou dois lados".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for machado, with forms such as "amchado", "macahdo", and "macchado". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "macho", "machão", "marcado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 machado, spelled M-A-C-H-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1ferramenta cortante composta de um cabo (usualmente de madeira) e uma cabeça (usualmente de ferro) com gumes de um ou dois lados
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amchado
- macahdo
- macchado
- machaddo
- machaod
- machdao
- machhado
- mahcado
- mcahado
- mmachado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of machado - 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 "machado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "machado". Here's where to go from here.
- "machado" maps to 7 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "macho". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #2,891 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Portuguese words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.