mortandade

noun

The verdict

“mortandade” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,261 among 2,261 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,261
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,261
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - matança, carnificina, massacre

Key facts for mortandade
PropertyValue
Headwordmortandade
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#56,261
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mortandade” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). mortandade lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mortandade is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,261 among 2,261 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

mortandade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is mortandade, spelled M-O-R-T-A-N-D-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    matança, carnificina, massacre
  2. 2
    mortalidade, quantidade de pessoas mortas em uma região, durante um tempo; morte

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mortandade"?
"mortandade" is spelled M-O-R-T-A-N-D-A-D-E.
What does "mortandade" mean?
As a noun, "mortandade" means: matança, carnificina, massacre
What language does "mortandade" come from?
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Using “mortandade”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-O-R-T-A-N-D-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list