musseque
Portuguese, noun/muˈsɛ.ki/
musseque is spelled M-U-S-S-E-Q-U-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Musseque is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “slum (dilapidated neighborhood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “favela”.
What does musseque mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslum (dilapidated neighborhood)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. favela
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.
Forms of musseque
- musseques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce musseque?
- Brazil /muˈsɛ.ki/
- Portugal /muˈsɛ.kɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to musseque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is musseque in Portuguese?
musseque appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).