moqueca

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for moqueca is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #58,663 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "prato de peixe ou marisco típico da Bahia temperado com azeite de dendê e leite de coco".

No misspelling variants are generated for moqueca 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 moqueca, spelled M-O-Q-U-E-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.