mamo
/ˈma.mo/.
The verdict
“mamo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,621 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,621
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mama
Corpus desk
Index PT-mamo · mamo · Portuguese
mamo · rank #65,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,621
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH madras
Nearest frequency peer: madras (-1 rank slots)
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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “mamo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lacrar
lacrar
34,402 corpus weight
- ladrar
ladrar
34,401 corpus weight
- loto
loto
34,385 corpus weight
- madras
madras
34,381 corpus weight
- mamo
mamo
34,380 corpus weight
- meiose
meiose
34,372 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mamo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mamo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈma.mo/. |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mamo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mamo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,621 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈma.mo/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mama".
mamo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mamo, spelled M-A-M-O.
Definition
- 1mama
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).