alqueire

Name: alqueire, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“alqueire” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,109 among 4,352 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,109
frequency rank, Portuguese: 4,352
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - antiga medida de capacidade usado sobretudo para cereais, mas de volume variável (na região de Lisboa equivalia a 13,8 litros)

Key facts for alqueire
Property	Value
Headword	alqueire
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#80,109
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “alqueire” 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). alqueire lands here:

#80,109

#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

alqueire is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,109 among 4,352 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.

alqueire has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is alqueire, spelled A-L-Q-U-E-I-R-E.

Definition

1
antiga medida de capacidade usado sobretudo para cereais, mas de volume variável (na região de Lisboa equivalia a 13,8 litros)
2
unidade de medida de superfície agrária
3
área de terreno que comporta um alqueire de semeadura (geralmente 100 braças de 2,20 m lineares)
4
recipiente quadrado, geralmente de madeira e com duas asas, utilizado para medir um alqueire de cereais
5
o peso representado pelo conteúdo desse recipiente
6
antiga medida para líquidos equivalente a seis canadas (cerca de 8 litros)
7
em algumas províncias portuguesas, antiga medida para líquidos equivalente a meio almude
8
antiga medida de superfície correspondente a 15.625 palmos quadrados

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 "alqueire"?

"alqueire" is spelled A-L-Q-U-E-I-R-E.

What does "alqueire" mean?

As a noun, "alqueire" means: antiga medida de capacidade usado sobretudo para cereais, mas de volume variável (na região de Lisboa equivalia a 13,8 litros)

What language does "alqueire" come from?

"alqueire" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Using “alqueire”

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

The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-L-Q-U-E-I-R-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.