morte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#281
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
morte is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato de morrer ou efeito de matar; fato ou momento que leva algo do estado vivo para o estado morto Pronounced /ˈmɔr.tʃi/ /ˈmɔr.ti/. It ranks #281 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with moto and most.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morte |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɔr.tʃi/ /ˈmɔr.ti/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for morte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɔr.tʃi/ /ˈmɔr.ti/. Corpus data places it at rank #281 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for morte, with forms such as "mmorte", "moret", and "morrte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moto", "most", "mote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 morte, spelled M-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato de morrer ou efeito de matar; fato ou momento que leva algo do estado vivo para o estado morto
- 2desaparecimento dos sinais vitais, tais quais pressão arterial, movimentos respiratórios e atividade cerebral
- 3fim, decadência
- 4entidade sobrenatural imaginária que ceifa a vida
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmorte,moret,morrte,mortte,motre,mrote,omrte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for morte
Misspelling Variants of "morte"
Frequency rank: #281 in Portuguese
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