mortandade
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mortandade |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mortandade” sits in Portuguese frequency
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
- 1matança, carnificina, massacre
- 2mortalidade, 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.
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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.
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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.