queso
/ˈkeso/
The verdict
“queso” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,229 among 129 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,229
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - queijo
Corpus desk
Index PT-queso · queso · Portuguese
queso · rank #83,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,229
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH propagandista
Nearest frequency peer: propagandista (-10 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 “queso”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- platino
platino
16,804 corpus weight
- propagandis…
propagandista
16,782 corpus weight
- queso
queso
16,772 corpus weight
- Rak
Rak
16,761 corpus weight
- rebuçado
rebuçado
16,757 corpus weight
- regozijar
regozijar
16,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “queso” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkeso/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “queso” em português
Rare enough to double-check
queso is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,229 among 129 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkeso/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "queijo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for queso, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is queso, spelled Q-U-E-S-O.
Definition
- 1queijo
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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