meada
/ˈmja.dɐ/
The verdict
“meada” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,415 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,415
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diz-se da bola de pão feita com farinhas misturadas de centeio e milho
Corpus desk
Index PT-meada · meada · Portuguese
meada · rank #70,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,415
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mecenato
Nearest frequency peer: mecenato (+2 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 “meada”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- manuseamento
manuseamento
29,595 corpus weight
- maricas
maricas
29,592 corpus weight
- meada
meada
29,586 corpus weight
- mecenato
mecenato
29,584 corpus weight
- mentol
mentol
29,579 corpus weight
- moela
moela
29,569 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “meada” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmja.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “meada” em português
Rare enough to double-check
meada is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,415 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmja.dɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "diz-se da bola de pão feita com farinhas misturadas de centeio e milho".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for meada, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 meada, spelled M-E-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1diz-se da bola de pão feita com farinhas misturadas de centeio e milho
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Bola meada"
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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