mendicante
/mẽ.di.ˈkɐ̃.tɨ/
The verdict
“mendicante” 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) - que mendiga, que pede esmola
Corpus desk
Index PT-mendicante · mendicante · Portuguese
mendicante · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | mendicante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /mẽ.di.ˈkɐ̃.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mendicante” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mendicante is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /mẽ.di.ˈkɐ̃.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mendicante in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is mendicante, spelled M-E-N-D-I-C-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que mendiga, que pede esmola
- 2que, por voto de pobreza, depende da caridade alheia (diz-se de ordem religiosa)
- 3que não trabalha, não tem ocupação; ocioso, vadio
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.