melé
Portuguese, noun
melé is spelled M-E-L-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 110,210th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Melé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “joker (playing card that features a picture of a jester)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, mele is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”.
What does melé mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinejoker (playing card that features a picture of a jester)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo melar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo melar 3. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo melar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of melé
- melés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is melé in Portuguese?
melé appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).