mísero
The verdict
“mísero” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #50,105 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #50,105
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: muito pobre; miserável, paupérrimo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mísero |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mísero” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mísero is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #50,105 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mísero 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 mísero, spelled M-Í-S-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1muito pobre; miserável, paupérrimo
- 2(Derivação: sentido figurado) pobre de ideias ou desprovido de inteligência
- 3muito reduzido; miserável, ínfimo, insignificante
- 4sem valor ou importância; desprezível, insignificante, reles
Frequency rank: #50,105 in Portuguese
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Using “mísero”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-Í-S-E-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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