mamadeira

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for mamadeira is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐ.mɐ.ˈdej.ɾɐ/, /mɐ.mɐ.ˈde.ɾɐ/, /mã.mɐ.ˈdej.ɾɐ/, /mã.mɐ.ˈde.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #30,245 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "frasco com uma tetina/bico de borracha, utilizado para dar leite (ou outros líquidos) a crianças".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for mamadeira, with forms such as "ammadeira", "maamdeira", and "mamaddeira". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "madeira", 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 mamadeira, spelled M-A-M-A-D-E-I-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.