requeijão
/Rɨ.kɐj.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“requeijão” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #27,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,253
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,668
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - massa comestível formada a partir de partículas sólidas extraídas do soro do leite obtido quando do fabrico do queijo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requeijão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɨ.kɐj.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requeijão” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around requeijão (IPA /Rɨ.kɐj.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,253 among 1,668 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "massa comestível formada a partir de partículas sólidas extraídas do soro do leite obtido quando do fabrico do queijo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for requeijão, with forms such as "erqueijão", "reqeuijão", and "reqqueijão". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is requeijão, spelled R-E-Q-U-E-I-J-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1massa comestível formada a partir de partículas sólidas extraídas do soro do leite obtido quando do fabrico do queijo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erqueijão
- reqeuijão
- reqqueijão
- requeijjão
- requeijoã
- requeiãjo
- requejião
- requiejão
- reuqeijão
- rqeueijão
- rrequeijão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of requeijão - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “requeijão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-E-Q-U-E-I-J-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /Rɨ.kɐj.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.