meow
/mjau/
The verdict
“meow” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,105 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,105
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - minhau
Corpus desk
Index PT-meow · meow · Portuguese
meow · rank #55,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,105
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH maresia
Nearest frequency peer: maresia (-14 rank slots)
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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “meow”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- maresia
maresia
44,910 corpus weight
- meow
meow
44,896 corpus weight
- moscovita
moscovita
44,878 corpus weight
- neco
neco
44,872 corpus weight
- Neuza
Neuza
44,869 corpus weight
- ofertar
ofertar
44,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “meow” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meow |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /mjau/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “meow” em português
Rare enough to double-check
meow is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,105 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /mjau/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "minhau".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for meow, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is meow, spelled M-E-O-W.
Definition
- 1minhau
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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