matavam

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for matavam is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ma.ˈta.vɐ̃ʊ̃m/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,722 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 pretérito imperfeito do modo indicativo do verbo matar".

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