mumificação

noun

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The verdict

“mumificação” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,111 among 2,261 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#83,111
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,261
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - processo de conservação do corpo de um humano ou animal após a morte, natural ou artificial, geralmente por meio de desidratação ou uso de substâncias químicas

Key facts for mumificação
PropertyValue
Headwordmumificação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#83,111
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mumificação” 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). mumificação 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

mumificação is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,111 among 2,261 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for mumificação in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mumificação, spelled M-U-M-I-F-I-C-A-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    processo de conservação do corpo de um humano ou animal após a morte, natural ou artificial, geralmente por meio de desidratação ou uso de substâncias químicas
  2. 2
    conservação natural de organismos em ambientes que impedem a decomposição, como regiões áridas ou geladas
  3. 3
    ato de preservar algo de forma rígida, impedindo mudanças ou transformações

Synonyms

embalsamamentoconservaçãopreservação

Antonyms

decomposiçãoputrefação

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 "mumificação"?
"mumificação" is spelled M-U-M-I-F-I-C-A-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "mumificação" mean?
As a noun, "mumificação" means: processo de conservação do corpo de um humano ou animal após a morte, natural ou artificial, geralmente por meio de desidratação ou uso de substâncias químicas
What language does "mumificação" come from?
"mumificação" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “mumificação”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-U-M-I-F-I-C-A-Ç-Ã-O - 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