macumba
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/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macumba |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.ˈkũ.bɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1antigo 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
- 2designação 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
- 3o ritual celebrado nesses cultos
- 4(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) designação leiga dos cultos afro-brasileiros em geral (e seus rituais respectivos)
- 5(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) designação leiga dos cultos afro-brasileiros em geral (e seus rituais respectivos)
- 6(Derivação: por metonímia) oferenda a Exu, especialmente nas encruzilhadas; despacho
- 7(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) em sentido lato, magia negra, feitiçaria; feitiço, despacho
- 8em terreiros do Nordeste do Brasil, excremento
- 9ousadia, audácia
- 10no início do século XX, filha-de-santo da nação cabinda
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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"
Frequency rank: #43,520 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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