mesquita
/mɨʃ.ˈki.tɐ/
The verdict
“mesquita” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,441. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,441
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - templo muçulmano
Corpus desk
Index PT-mesquita · mesquita · Portuguese
mesquita · rank #5,441 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,441
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH líquido
Nearest frequency peer: líquido (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “mesquita”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- hill
hill
94,567 corpus weight
- inveja
inveja
94,565 corpus weight
- líquido
líquido
94,562 corpus weight
- mesquita
mesquita
94,560 corpus weight
- molho
molho
94,557 corpus weight
- ocorrência
ocorrência
94,555 corpus weight
What this shows “mesquita” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesquita |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨʃ.ˈki.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “mesquita”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mesquita (IPA /mɨʃ.ˈki.tɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,441 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "templo muçulmano".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mesquita, with forms such as "emsquita", "meqsuita", and "mesqiuta". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is mesquita, spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1templo muçulmano
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emsquita
- meqsuita
- mesqiuta
- mesqquita
- mesquiat
- mesquitta
- mesqutia
- messquita
- mesuqita
- mmesquita
- msequita
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mesquita - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).