macieira
/mɐ.sɪ.ˈe.ɾɐ/, /mɐ.ˈsje.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“macieira” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #42,091 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #42,091
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - espécie de árvore da família das rosáceas que produz as maçãs (género/gênero Malus)
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 | macieira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.sɪ.ˈe.ɾɐ/, /mɐ.ˈsje.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “macieira” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for macieira is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐ.sɪ.ˈe.ɾɐ/, /mɐ.ˈsje.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #42,091 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "espécie de árvore da família das rosáceas que produz as maçãs (género/gênero Malus)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for macieira, with forms such as "amcieira", "maccieira", and "maceiira". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "maneira", "madeira", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is macieira, spelled M-A-C-I-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1espécie de árvore da família das rosáceas que produz as maçãs (género/gênero Malus)
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amcieira,maccieira,maceiira,macieiar,macieirra,macieria,maciiera,maiceira,mcaieira,mmacieira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of macieira - 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 “macieira”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-C-I-E-I-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɐ.sɪ.ˈe.ɾɐ/, /mɐ.ˈsje.ɾɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “maneira” - see the side-by-side comparison. macieira vs maneira
- 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.