matassem
/ma.ˈta.sẽm/
The verdict
“matassem” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,054 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,054
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo matar
Corpus desk
Index PT-matassem · matassem · Portuguese
matassem · rank #58,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,054
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH Matthieu
Nearest frequency peer: Matthieu (+1 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 “matassem”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Lombardia
Lombardia
41,966 corpus weight
- matassem
matassem
41,947 corpus weight
- Matthieu
Matthieu
41,946 corpus weight
- mosquete
mosquete
41,935 corpus weight
- mossa
mossa
41,934 corpus weight
- myra
myra
41,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “matassem” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matassem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ma.ˈta.sẽm/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “matassem” em português
Rare enough to double-check
matassem is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,054 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ma.ˈta.sẽm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo matar".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for matassem, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is matassem, spelled M-A-T-A-S-S-E-M.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo matar
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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