martelo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,719
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
martelo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ferramenta com cabo de madeira e na extremidade uma peça de metal com uma superfície lisa, usada para bater em pregos Pronounced /mɐɾ.ˈtɛ.lu/. It ranks #9,719 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Martino and mirtilo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martelo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐɾ.ˈtɛ.lu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for martelo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐɾ.ˈtɛ.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,719 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for martelo, with forms such as "amrtelo", "maretlo", and "marrtelo". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Martino", "mirtilo", "Marte", 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 martelo, spelled M-A-R-T-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ferramenta com cabo de madeira e na extremidade uma peça de metal com uma superfície lisa, usada para bater em pregos
- 2arma medieval
- 3osso em forma de martelo¹, localizado na orelha média
- 4chute semicircular, no qual se usa o dorso do pé para golpear o adversário no rosto ou no tronco
- 5inseto homóptero da família dos diaspidídeos
- 6bola de metal que é empunhada e atirada a distância em competições de atletismo
- 7sinal usado em lógica, formado de uma linha vertical seguida de uma linha horizontal, usado, entre outras formas, para denotar uma relação de consequência, com respeito a um dado sistema lógico, entre uma coleção de fórmulas e uma fórmula
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrtelo,maretlo,marrtelo,martello,marteol,martleo,marttelo,matrelo,mmartelo,mratelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for martelo
Misspelling Variants of "martelo"
Frequency rank: #9,719 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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