mesquinhez
/mɨʃ.ki.ˈɲeʃ/
The verdict
“mesquinhez” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,457 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,457
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualidade de mesquinho
Corpus desk
Index PT-mesquinhez · mesquinhez · Portuguese
mesquinhez · rank #81,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,457
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH milharal
Nearest frequency peer: milharal (+3 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 “mesquinhez”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- massacrante
massacrante
18,559 corpus weight
- mesquinhez
mesquinhez
18,544 corpus weight
- milharal
milharal
18,541 corpus weight
- morcela
morcela
18,529 corpus weight
- nêutron
nêutron
18,502 corpus weight
- oiça
oiça
18,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mesquinhez” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesquinhez |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨʃ.ki.ˈɲeʃ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mesquinhez” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mesquinhez is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,457 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɨʃ.ki.ˈɲeʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mesquinhez in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is mesquinhez, spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-N-H-E-Z.
Definition
- 1qualidade de mesquinho
- 2sovinice, avareza
- 3ato mesquinho
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mesquinhez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O recente debate político brasileiro repete, a seu modo, a mesquinhez obtusa que está no coração da peça de Shakespeare.
Synonyms
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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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