meles
Portuguese, noun
meles is spelled M-E-L-E-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 81,082nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meles is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of mel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, melés is a different word: “plural of melé”.
What does meles mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of mel
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of melar
noun
- 1
masculineplural of melé
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. segunda 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.
How common is meles in Portuguese?
meles appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).