morto
The verdict
“morto” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,096 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #1,096
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que deixou de viver
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “morto” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for morto is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #1,096 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for morto, with forms such as "mmorto", "morot", and "morrto". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moto", "muro", "most", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is morto, spelled M-O-R-T-O.
Definition
- 1que deixou de viver
- 2defunto
- 3murcho ou seco (falando-se de vegetais)
- 4extinto
- 5desvanecido
- 6esquecido
- 7que desapareceu
- 8acabado
- 9profundamente dominado ou possuído (por um sentimento, por um desejo, etc.)
- 10insensível; paralisado; em que não há movimento
- 11inexpressivo
- 12inerte
- 13inútil
- 14extremamente fatigado
- 15que caiu em desuso
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmorto,morot,morrto,mortto,motro,mroto,omrto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morto - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “morto”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-O-R-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “moto” - see the side-by-side comparison. morto vs moto
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.