mastodonte
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#92,108
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mastodonte is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome comum às espécies do gênero Mammut, proboscídeos extintos que eram endêmicos da América do Norte onde surgiram no final do Mioceno ao início do Holoceno (algumas espécies da Eurásia necessitam... Pronounced /mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mastodonte |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mastodonte is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/. Corpus data places it at rank #92,108 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mastodonte 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 mastodonte, spelled M-A-S-T-O-D-O-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome comum às espécies do gênero Mammut, proboscídeos extintos que eram endêmicos da América do Norte onde surgiram no final do Mioceno ao início do Holoceno (algumas espécies da Eurásia necessitam comprovação), pertencem à ordem Proboscidea (a mesma dos elefantes modernos e dos mamutes) até seu desaparecimento no final do Pleistoceno entre 10 mil e 11 mil anos atrás e, embora a altura fosse similar ou inferior ao elefante africano, sua massa era muito maior e possuíam duas presas grandes no maxilar superior e duas menores no inferior, surgidas nas espécies mais recentes
- 2indivíduo corpulento e desajeitado
- 3algo de grandes dimensões
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Frequency rank: #92,108 in Portuguese
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