másculo
The verdict
“másculo” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #64,970 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #64,970
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: referido ao masculino, o mesmo que masculino
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | másculo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmaʃ.ku.lu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “másculo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for másculo is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmaʃ.ku.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #64,970 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "referido ao masculino, o mesmo que masculino".
No misspelling variants are generated for másculo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 másculo, spelled M-Á-S-C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1referido ao masculino, o mesmo que masculino
Frequency rank: #64,970 in Portuguese
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Using “másculo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-Á-S-C-U-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmaʃ.ku.lu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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