matan

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for matan is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈma.t̪ãn/. Corpus data places it at rank #77,333 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "terceira pessoa do plural do presente do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo matar".

No misspelling variants are generated for matan 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 matan, spelled M-A-T-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.