macumba

//mɐ.ˈkũ.bɐ// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#43,520

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

macumba is aPortuguesenoun. It means: antigo instrumento de percussão de origem africana, espécie de canzá que consistia num tubo de taquara com cortes transversais onde se friccionavam duas varetas, e que era outrora usado em terreiro... Pronounced /mɐ.ˈkũ.bɐ/.

Key facts for macumba
PropertyValue
Headwordmacumba
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/mɐ.ˈkũ.bɐ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#43,520
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of macumba in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for macumba is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐ.ˈkũ.bɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #43,520 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for macumba, with forms such as "amcumba", "maccumba", and "macmuba". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is macumba, spelled M-A-C-U-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    antigo instrumento de percussão de origem africana, espécie de canzá que consistia num tubo de taquara com cortes transversais onde se friccionavam duas varetas, e que era outrora usado em terreiros de cultos afro-brasileiros
  2. 2
    designação genérica dos cultos afro-brasileiros originários do nagô e que receberam influências de outras religiões africanas (por exemplo, de Angola e do Congo), e também ameríndias, católicas, espíritas e ocultistas
  3. 3
    o ritual celebrado nesses cultos
  4. 4
    (Derivação: por extensão de sentido) designação leiga dos cultos afro-brasileiros em geral (e seus rituais respectivos)
  5. 5
    (Derivação: por extensão de sentido) designação leiga dos cultos afro-brasileiros em geral (e seus rituais respectivos)
  6. 6
    (Derivação: por metonímia) oferenda a Exu, especialmente nas encruzilhadas; despacho
  7. 7
    (Derivação: por extensão de sentido) em sentido lato, magia negra, feitiçaria; feitiço, despacho
  8. 8
    em terreiros do Nordeste do Brasil, excremento
  9. 9
    ousadia, audácia
  10. 10
    no início do século XX, filha-de-santo da nação cabinda

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amcumba,maccumba,macmuba,macubma,macumab,macumbba,macummba,maucmba,mcaumba,mmacumba

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for macumba

Misspelling Variants of "macumba"

amcumba7maccumba8macmuba7macubma7macumab7macumbba8macummba8maucmba7
Misspelling Variants of "macumba"

Frequency rank: #43,520 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "macumba"?
"macumba" is spelled M-A-C-U-M-B-A. The IPA pronunciation is /mɐ.ˈkũ.bɐ/.
What does "macumba" mean?
As a noun, "macumba" means: antigo instrumento de percussão de origem africana, espécie de canzá que consistia num tubo de taquara com cortes transversais onde se friccionavam duas varetas, e que era outrora usado em terreiro...
What are common misspellings of "macumba"?
Common misspellings include "amcumba", "maccumba", "macmuba", "macubma", "macumab". The correct spelling is "macumba".
How do you pronounce "macumba"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "macumba" is /mɐ.ˈkũ.bɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "macumba" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.