bonobo
/bo.ˈno.bʊ/
The verdict
“bonobo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,014 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,014
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - espécie de primata (Pan paniscus) ameaçada de extinção, encontrado no sul da República Democrática do Congo
Corpus desk
Index PT-bonobo · bonobo · Portuguese
bonobo · rank #73,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,014
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bizarre
Nearest frequency peer: bizarre (-6 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 “bonobo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bestialidade
bestialidade
27,003 corpus weight
- biqueira
biqueira
26,997 corpus weight
- bizarre
bizarre
26,993 corpus weight
- bonobo
bonobo
26,987 corpus weight
- bubu
bubu
26,977 corpus weight
- Cleopatra
Cleopatra
26,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bonobo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonobo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bo.ˈno.bʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bonobo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bonobo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,014 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bo.ˈno.bʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "espécie de primata (Pan paniscus) ameaçada de extinção, encontrado no sul da República Democrática do Congo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonobo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bonobo, spelled B-O-N-O-B-O.
Definition
- 1espécie de primata (Pan paniscus) ameaçada de extinção, encontrado no sul da República Democrática do Congo
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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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