mescalina
/mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/
The verdict
“mescalina” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,089 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,089
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alcaloide extraído de uma cactácea mexicana, que provoca alucinações visuais
Corpus desk
Index PT-mescalina · mescalina · Portuguese
mescalina · rank #83,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,089
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH merge
Nearest frequency peer: merge (-2 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 “mescalina”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- mamário
mamário
16,935 corpus weight
- merge
merge
16,914 corpus weight
- mescalina
mescalina
16,912 corpus weight
- millennial
millennial
16,906 corpus weight
- monoteísta
monoteísta
16,899 corpus weight
- mumificação
mumificação
16,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mescalina” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mescalina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mescalina” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mescalina is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,089 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alcaloide extraído de uma cactácea mexicana, que provoca alucinações visuais".
mescalina has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is mescalina, spelled M-E-S-C-A-L-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1alcaloide extraído de uma cactácea mexicana, que provoca alucinações visuais
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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