miasma
/ˈmjaʒ.mɐ/
The verdict
“miasma” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - emanação mefítica originada de matérias pútridas, sendo a causa suposta de várias doenças endêmicas
Corpus desk
Index PT-miasma · miasma · Portuguese
miasma · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miasma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmjaʒ.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “miasma” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
miasma is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmjaʒ.mɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
miasma doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 miasma, spelled M-I-A-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1emanação mefítica originada de matérias pútridas, sendo a causa suposta de várias doenças endêmicas
- 2influência nociva ou deletéria; corrupção
- 3pestilência
- 4mal-estar; incômodo
Synonyms
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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.