maiúsculo
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,531
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
maiúsculo is anPortugueseadj. It means: diz-se dos caracteres maiores do alfabeto, usados no início dos nomes próprios e das frases: Often confused with músculo and minúsculo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maiúsculo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for maiúsculo is 9 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #36,531 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 maiúsculo, with forms such as "amiúsculo", "maisúculo", and "maiúcsulo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "músculo", "minúsculo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 maiúsculo, spelled M-A-I-Ú-S-C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1diz-se dos caracteres maiores do alfabeto, usados no início dos nomes próprios e das frases:
- 2o mesmo que versal
- 3o mesmo que capital
- 4o mesmo que caixa alta
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amiúsculo,maisúculo,maiúcsulo,maiúscculo,maiúscluo,maiúscullo,maiúscuol,maiússculo,maiúsuclo,maúisculo,miaúsculo,mmaiúsculo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "maiúsculo"
Frequency rank: #36,531 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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