moscatel
/muʃ.kɐ.ˈtɛɫ/
The verdict
“moscatel” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,149 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,149
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grupo de variedades de uvas bastante adocicadas
Corpus desk
Index PT-moscatel · moscatel · Portuguese
moscatel · rank #74,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,149
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH miar
Nearest frequency peer: miar (-10 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 “moscatel”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- matariam
matariam
25,873 corpus weight
- meiguice
meiguice
25,868 corpus weight
- mercantilis…
mercantilismo
25,866 corpus weight
- miar
miar
25,862 corpus weight
- moscatel
moscatel
25,852 corpus weight
- necromante
necromante
25,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “moscatel” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moscatel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /muʃ.kɐ.ˈtɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “moscatel” em português
Rare enough to double-check
moscatel is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,149 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /muʃ.kɐ.ˈtɛɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for moscatel, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is moscatel, spelled M-O-S-C-A-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1grupo de variedades de uvas bastante adocicadas
- 2o vinho feito com essa uva
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how moscatel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nenhum prato, por mais engenhoso, o seduzia; — e, como através do seu tumulto matinal fumava incontáveis cigarrilhas que o ressequiam, começava por se encharcar com um imenso copo de água oxigenada, ou carbonatada, ou gasosa, misturada dum conhaque raro, muito caro, horrendamente adocicado, de moscatel de Siracusa.
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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