mistress
/ˈmɪstɹɪs/
The verdict
“mistress” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,036 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,036
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - senhora (masc. mister)
Corpus desk
Index PT-mistress · mistress · Portuguese
mistress · rank #84,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,036
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mert
Nearest frequency peer: mert (-11 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 “mistress”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- luego
luego
16,008 corpus weight
- maleabilida…
maleabilidade
15,995 corpus weight
- meritório
meritório
15,977 corpus weight
- mert
mert
15,976 corpus weight
- mistress
mistress
15,965 corpus weight
- oriento
oriento
15,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “mistress” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mistress |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɪstɹɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mistress” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mistress is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,036 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmɪstɹɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mistress, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 mistress, spelled M-I-S-T-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1senhora (masc. mister)
- 2mestra; professora (masc. master)
- 3amante
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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