malária
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,784
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
malária is aPortuguesenoun. It means: doença infecciosa endêmica em muitas regiões tropicais e subtropicais do mundo, causada por um parasita, protozoário do gênero Plasmodium (da família plasmodiidae), transmitida aos seres humanos po... Pronounced /mɐ.ˈla.ɾjɐ/. Often confused with Maria and Malawi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malária |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.ˈla.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for malária is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐ.ˈla.ɾjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #13,784 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for malária, with forms such as "amlária", "mallária", and "malráia". 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 also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Maria", "Malawi", "matéria", and more, 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 malária, spelled M-A-L-Á-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1doença infecciosa endêmica em muitas regiões tropicais e subtropicais do mundo, causada por um parasita, protozoário do gênero Plasmodium (da família plasmodiidae), transmitida aos seres humanos por meio da picada do mosquito Anopheles infectado ou ainda através de transmissão congênita (da mãe para o feto), por transfusão sanguínea ou hemoderivados e por uso de agulhas e seringas contaminada
- 2qualquer de várias doenças mais ou menos semelhantes que acometem aves e mamíferos, causadas por protozoários presentes no sangue
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amlária,mallária,malráia,maláira,malárai,malárria,maálria,mlaária,mmalária
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Misspelling Variants of "malária"
Frequency rank: #13,784 in Portuguese
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