queixada
/kɐj.ˈʃa.dɐ/
The verdict
“queixada” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #85,892 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #85,892
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mandíbula
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queixada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐj.ˈʃa.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “queixada” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for queixada is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐj.ˈʃa.dɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #85,892 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mandíbula".
queixada doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is queixada, spelled Q-U-E-I-X-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1mandíbula
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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Using “queixada”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Q-U-E-I-X-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɐj.ˈʃa.dɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.