alqueire
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,109
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alqueire is aPortuguesenoun. It means: antiga medida de capacidade usado sobretudo para cereais, mas de volume variável (na região de Lisboa equivalia a 13,8 litros)
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for alqueire is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #80,109 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alqueire in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 alqueire, spelled A-L-Q-U-E-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1antiga medida de capacidade usado sobretudo para cereais, mas de volume variável (na região de Lisboa equivalia a 13,8 litros)
- 2unidade de medida de superfície agrária
- 3área de terreno que comporta um alqueire de semeadura (geralmente 100 braças de 2,20 m lineares)
- 4recipiente quadrado, geralmente de madeira e com duas asas, utilizado para medir um alqueire de cereais
- 5o peso representado pelo conteúdo desse recipiente
- 6antiga medida para líquidos equivalente a seis canadas (cerca de 8 litros)
- 7em algumas províncias portuguesas, antiga medida para líquidos equivalente a meio almude
- 8antiga medida de superfície correspondente a 15.625 palmos quadrados
Frequency rank: #80,109 in Portuguese
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