mau-olhado
Letters
10 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mau-olhado is aPortuguesenoun. It means: feitiço; crença folclórica observada entre vários povos de que a maneira de olhar uma situação de prosperidade pode ocasionar a degradação desta
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mau-olhado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mau-olhado is 10 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mau-olhado 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 mau-olhado, spelled M-A-U---O-L-H-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1feitiço; crença folclórica observada entre vários povos de que a maneira de olhar uma situação de prosperidade pode ocasionar a degradação desta
- 2pretensa influência de ordem sobrenatural causadora de má sorte que emanaria através dos olhos de uma pessoa e destes à pessoa assolada ao ser visualizada, a qual passaria a sofrer dessa pretensa má influência sobrenatural que a causaria desafortúnio como efeito
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "mau-olhado"?
What does "mau-olhado" mean?
What language does "mau-olhado" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index: