miserê
Portuguese, noun
miserê is spelled M-I-S-E-R-Ê (6 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese, the 229,473rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Miserê is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “misery (extreme poverty)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, misere is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “penúria”.
What does miserê mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialmasculinemisery (extreme poverty)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. penúria 2. pequena quantidade de dinheiro
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is miserê in Portuguese?
miserê appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).