meritório
/me.ɾiˈtɔ.ɾi.u/
The verdict
“meritório” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,024 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,024
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualidade de quem ou do que tem mérito, se distingue; que merece prêmio ou recompensa
Corpus desk
Index PT-meritorio · meritório · Portuguese
meritório · rank #84,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,024
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mert
Nearest frequency peer: mert (+1 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 “meritório”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- limar
limar
16,019 corpus weight
- luego
luego
16,008 corpus weight
- maleabilida…
maleabilidade
15,995 corpus weight
- meritório
meritório
15,977 corpus weight
- mert
mert
15,976 corpus weight
- mistress
mistress
15,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “meritório” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meritório |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /me.ɾiˈtɔ.ɾi.u/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “meritório” em português
Rare enough to double-check
meritório is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,024 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /me.ɾiˈtɔ.ɾi.u/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "qualidade de quem ou do que tem mérito, se distingue; que merece prêmio ou recompensa".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for meritório, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is meritório, spelled M-E-R-I-T-Ó-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1qualidade de quem ou do que tem mérito, se distingue; que merece prêmio ou recompensa
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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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