machado
/mɐ.ˈʃa.du/
The verdict
“machado” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,891 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,891
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ferramenta cortante composta de um cabo (usualmente de madeira) e uma cabeça (usualmente de ferro) com gumes de um ou dois lados
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) |
Where “machado” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for machado is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐ.ˈʃa.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,891 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “machado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-C-H-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɐ.ˈʃa.du/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “macho” - see the side-by-side comparison. machado vs macho
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.