másculo
/ˈmaʃ.ku.lu/
The verdict
“másculo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,970 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,970
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - referido ao masculino, o mesmo que masculino
Corpus desk
Index PT-masculo · másculo · Portuguese
másculo · rank #64,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,970
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mot
Nearest frequency peer: mot (-8 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 “másculo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- materialmen…
materialmente
35,066 corpus weight
- mot
mot
35,039 corpus weight
- másculo
másculo
35,031 corpus weight
- orelhões
orelhões
35,008 corpus weight
- otite
otite
35,006 corpus weight
- papaia
papaia
35,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “másculo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “másculo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
másculo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,970 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmaʃ.ku.lu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "referido ao masculino, o mesmo que masculino".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for másculo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is másculo, spelled M-Á-S-C-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1referido ao masculino, o mesmo que masculino
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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