malandro
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,892
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
malandro is anPortugueseadj. It means: diz-se daquele que possui valores morais e/ou éticos corrompidos, ou contrários aos valores eleitos como virtuosos pela sociedade; bandido, desnaturado, safado
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malandro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for malandro is 8 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #14,892 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 malandro, with forms such as "amlandro", "maalndro", and "maladnro". 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 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 malandro, spelled M-A-L-A-N-D-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1diz-se daquele que possui valores morais e/ou éticos corrompidos, ou contrários aos valores eleitos como virtuosos pela sociedade; bandido, desnaturado, safado
- 2mandrião, preguiçoso, calaceiro
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amlandro,maalndro,maladnro,malanddro,malandor,malandrro,malanndro,malanrdo,mallandro,malnadro,mlaandro,mmalandro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for malandro
Misspelling Variants of "malandro"
Frequency rank: #14,892 in Portuguese
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