machucar
The verdict
“machucar” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,432 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #7,432
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ferir, causar ferimento, contusão ou lesão a alguém
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machucar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “machucar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for machucar is 8 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #7,432 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for machucar, with forms such as "amchucar", "macchucar", and "machcuar". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 machucar, spelled M-A-C-H-U-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1ferir, causar ferimento, contusão ou lesão a alguém
- 2magoar, fazer alguém sofrer fisicamente ou psicologicamente
- 3deformar ou causar lesão a algo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amchucar,macchucar,machcuar,machhucar,machuacr,machucarr,machuccar,machucra,macuhcar,mahcucar,mcahucar,mmachucar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of machucar - 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 “machucar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-C-H-U-C-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- 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.