malcheiroso
/maɫ.ʃɐj.ˈɾo.zu/
The verdict
“malcheiroso” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tem odor desagradável
Corpus desk
Index PT-malcheiroso · malcheiroso · Portuguese
malcheiroso · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malcheiroso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /maɫ.ʃɐj.ˈɾo.zu/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “malcheiroso” em português
Rare enough to double-check
malcheiroso is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /maɫ.ʃɐj.ˈɾo.zu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
malcheiroso doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct Portuguese form is malcheiroso, spelled M-A-L-C-H-E-I-R-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1que tem odor desagradável
- 2fétido, fedorento
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.