mescalina

//mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#83,089

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mescalina is aPortuguesenoun. It means: alcaloide extraído de uma cactácea mexicana, que provoca alucinações visuais Pronounced /mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/.

Key facts for mescalina
PropertyValue
Headwordmescalina
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/
Letters9
Frequency rank#83,089
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mescalina in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for mescalina is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #83,089 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "alcaloide extraído de uma cactácea mexicana, que provoca alucinações visuais".

No misspelling variants are generated for mescalina in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is mescalina, spelled M-E-S-C-A-L-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    alcaloide extraído de uma cactácea mexicana, que provoca alucinações visuais

Frequency rank: #83,089 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mescalina"?
"mescalina" is spelled M-E-S-C-A-L-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is /mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/.
What does "mescalina" mean?
As a noun, "mescalina" means: alcaloide extraído de uma cactácea mexicana, que provoca alucinações visuais
How do you pronounce "mescalina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mescalina" is /mɛʃ.kɐ.ˈli.nɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mescalina" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.