mela-cueca
The verdict
“mela-cueca” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - extrema e piegasmente romântico
Corpus desk
Index PT-mela-cueca · mela-cueca · Portuguese
mela-cueca · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | mela-cueca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mela-cueca” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mela-cueca is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "extrema e piegasmente romântico".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mela-cueca in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 mela-cueca, spelled M-E-L-A---C-U-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1extrema e piegasmente romântico
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mela-cueca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nada pior que música mela-cueca com aquele solo de sax no meio.
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.