mastodonte

//mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi// noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#92,108

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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0

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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/.

Key facts for mastodonte
PropertyValue
Headwordmastodonte
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/
Letters10
Frequency rank#92,108
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mastodonte in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    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 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
  2. 2
    indivíduo corpulento e desajeitado
  3. 3
    algo de grandes dimensões

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Frequency rank: #92,108 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mastodonte"?
"mastodonte" is spelled M-A-S-T-O-D-O-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is /mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/.
What does "mastodonte" mean?
As a noun, "mastodonte" 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...
How do you pronounce "mastodonte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mastodonte" is /mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.