mastodonte

Name: mastodonte, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
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/mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/

//mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi// noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“mastodonte” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,108 among 2,261 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,108
frequency rank, Portuguese: 2,261
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...

Key facts for mastodonte
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)

Where “mastodonte” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). mastodonte lands here:

#92,108

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mastodonte is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,108 among 2,261 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

mastodonte has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is mastodonte, spelled M-A-S-T-O-D-O-N-T-E.

Definition

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
indivíduo corpulento e desajeitado
3
algo de grandes dimensões

Synonyms

brucutubrutamontesferrabrás

Antonyms

delicado franzino

This word in other languages

mastodon(English)mastodonte(Español)mastodonte(Français)Mastodon(Deutsch)

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.

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.

What language does "mastodonte" come from?

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Using “mastodonte”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-S-T-O-D-O-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Say it as /mas.toˈdõ.t͡ʃi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.