alqueire

noun

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The verdict

“alqueire” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,109 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,109
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,900
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - antiga medida de capacidade usado sobretudo para cereais, mas de volume variável (na região de Lisboa equivalia a 13,8 litros)

Corpus desk

Index PT-alqueire · alqueire · Portuguese

alqueire · rank #80,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,109
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,900
  • PHOTO-FINISH amansar

Nearest frequency peer: amansar (+5 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “alqueire”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alqueire” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for alqueire
PropertyValue
Headwordalqueire
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#80,109
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “alqueire” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.alqueirecai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “amansar” (#80,114), “aldeão” (#80,102), “aeroportuário” (#80,089). Entre 1,900 lemas com “A”, “alqueire” fica em #80,109. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

alqueire is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,109 among 1,900 “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. 1
    antiga medida de capacidade usado sobretudo para cereais, mas de volume variável (na região de Lisboa equivalia a 13,8 litros)
  2. 2
    unidade de medida de superfície agrária
  3. 3
    área de terreno que comporta um alqueire de semeadura (geralmente 100 braças de 2,20 m lineares)
  4. 4
    recipiente quadrado, geralmente de madeira e com duas asas, utilizado para medir um alqueire de cereais
  5. 5
    o peso representado pelo conteúdo desse recipiente
  6. 6
    antiga medida para líquidos equivalente a seis canadas (cerca de 8 litros)
  7. 7
    em algumas províncias portuguesas, antiga medida para líquidos equivalente a meio almude
  8. 8
    antiga medida de superfície correspondente a 15.625 palmos quadrados

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how alqueire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Obs.: confira alqueire do Norte, alqueire mineiro e alqueire paulista

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?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alqueire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list