meilleur
/mɛ.jœʁ/
The verdict
“meilleur” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - melhor (comparativo de bon)
Corpus desk
Index PT-meilleur · meilleur · Portuguese
meilleur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meilleur |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /mɛ.jœʁ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “meilleur” em português
Rare enough to double-check
meilleur is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /mɛ.jœʁ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "melhor (comparativo de bon)".
meilleur has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is meilleur, spelled M-E-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1melhor (comparativo de bon)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meilleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
le meilleur de l’affaire, le meilleur du conte, le meilleur est que...
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.