mexilhão
/mɨ.ʃi.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“mexilhão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,850 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,850
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - molusco lamelibrânquio comestível da família dos Mitilídeos
Corpus desk
Index PT-mexilhao · mexilhão · Portuguese
mexilhão · rank #56,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,850
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH method
Nearest frequency peer: method (-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 “mexilhão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- loro
loro
43,178 corpus weight
- mastigação
mastigação
43,164 corpus weight
- method
method
43,152 corpus weight
- mexilhão
mexilhão
43,151 corpus weight
- microscópico
microscópico
43,148 corpus weight
- modelação
modelação
43,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mexilhão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mexilhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.ʃi.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mexilhão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mexilhão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,850 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɨ.ʃi.ˈʎɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "molusco lamelibrânquio comestível da família dos Mitilídeos".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mexilhão, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mexilhão, spelled M-E-X-I-L-H-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1molusco lamelibrânquio comestível da família dos Mitilídeos
This word in other languages
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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