quenga
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#90,386
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quenga is aPortuguesenoun. It means: vasilha feita de meio coco, depois de retirado o seu miolo (endocarpo) Pronounced /ˈkẽ.gə/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quenga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkẽ.gə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for quenga is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkẽ.gə/. Corpus data places it at rank #90,386 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quenga 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 quenga, spelled Q-U-E-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vasilha feita de meio coco, depois de retirado o seu miolo (endocarpo)
- 2o conteúdo dessa vasilha; quengo
- 3prostituta, mulher da vida, vadia
- 4mulher feia, desagradável, grosseira
- 5guisado de galinha com quiabos
Frequency rank: #90,386 in Portuguese
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