queque
/ˈkɛ.kɨ/
The verdict
“queque” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,019 among 129 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,019
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bolo de manteiga, açucar e ovos semelhante ao pão-de-ló
Corpus desk
Index PT-queque · queque · Portuguese
queque · rank #85,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,019
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH rafeiro
Nearest frequency peer: rafeiro (+4 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 “queque”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- personalizá…
personalizável
15,017 corpus weight
- pornography
pornography
15,005 corpus weight
- procedure
procedure
14,997 corpus weight
- queque
queque
14,982 corpus weight
- rafeiro
rafeiro
14,978 corpus weight
- resurrection
resurrection
14,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “queque” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queque |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɛ.kɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “queque” em português
Rare enough to double-check
queque is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,019 among 129 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɛ.kɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for queque, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is queque, spelled Q-U-E-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1bolo de manteiga, açucar e ovos semelhante ao pão-de-ló
- 2mãe-benta
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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