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quela

Portuguese, noun

quela is spelled Q-U-E-L-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 74,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quela is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “chela (claw)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does quela mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininechela (claw)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of quela

  • quelas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is quela in Portuguese?

quela appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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