mel
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,843
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mel is aPortuguesenoun. It means: substância doce, espessa e viscosa elaborada pelas abelhas nas colmeias Pronounced /ˈmɛɫ/. It ranks #2,843 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with my and mi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mel is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɛɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,843 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mel in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mi", "mo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mel, spelled M-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1substância doce, espessa e viscosa elaborada pelas abelhas nas colmeias
- 2doçura
- 3cachaça
- 4o mesmo que sangue
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Frequency rank: #2,843 in Portuguese
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