mercato
/merˈkato/
The verdict
“mercato” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,771 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,771
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mercado
Corpus desk
Index PT-mercato · mercato · Portuguese
mercato · rank #85,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,771
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH omnipotente
Nearest frequency peer: omnipotente (+46 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 “mercato”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- jak
jak
14,293 corpus weight
- jandaíra
jandaíra
14,291 corpus weight
- Kauê
Kauê
14,284 corpus weight
- mercato
mercato
14,230 corpus weight
- omnipotente
omnipotente
14,184 corpus weight
- ostrov
ostrov
14,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mercato” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercato |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /merˈkato/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mercato” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mercato is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,771 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /merˈkato/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mercado".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mercato, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is mercato, spelled M-E-R-C-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1mercado
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).