meal
/miːl/
The verdict
“meal” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,725 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,725
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - refeição
Corpus desk
Index PT-meal · meal · Portuguese
meal · rank #69,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,725
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH marão
Nearest frequency peer: marão (-4 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 “meal”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- láctico
láctico
30,288 corpus weight
- léu
léu
30,287 corpus weight
- marão
marão
30,280 corpus weight
- meal
meal
30,276 corpus weight
- microbiota
microbiota
30,265 corpus weight
- mors
mors
30,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “meal” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /miːl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “meal” em português
Rare enough to double-check
meal is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,725 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /miːl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
meal has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 meal, spelled M-E-A-L.
Definition
- 1refeição
- 2ração
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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