mamão
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,399
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mamão is anPortugueseadj. It means: que mama muito Often confused with mão and mata.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mamão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mamão is 5 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #23,399 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mamão, with forms such as "ammão", "mammão", and "mamoã". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mão", "mata", "mato", 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 mamão, spelled M-A-M-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que mama muito
- 2que ainda está em idade de amamentação
- 3que é improdutivo (esp. na agricultura)
- 4que parasita, oportunista
- 5comilão
- 6tubarão-frade (Cetorhinus maximus)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammão,mammão,mamoã,maãmo,mmamão,mmaão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mamão
Misspelling Variants of "mamão"
Frequency rank: #23,399 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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