cadinho
/kɐ.ˈdi.ɲu/
The verdict
“cadinho” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,490 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,490
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - recipiente em forma de pote, normalmente com características refratárias, resistente a temperaturas elevadas, no qual são fundidos materiais a altas temperaturas
Corpus desk
Index PT-cadinho · cadinho · Portuguese
cadinho · rank #51,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,490
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cadastrado
Nearest frequency peer: cadastrado (-1 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 “cadinho”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- braçal
braçal
48,518 corpus weight
- buldogue
buldogue
48,516 corpus weight
- buzinar
buzinar
48,514 corpus weight
- cadastrado
cadastrado
48,512 corpus weight
- cadinho
cadinho
48,511 corpus weight
- chocalho
chocalho
48,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cadinho” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadinho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈdi.ɲu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cadinho” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cadinho is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,490 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈdi.ɲu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cadinho, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cadinho, spelled C-A-D-I-N-H-O.
Definition
- 1recipiente em forma de pote, normalmente com características refratárias, resistente a temperaturas elevadas, no qual são fundidos materiais a altas temperaturas
- 2pequeno bocado, pouquinho
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cadinho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zé Quinha e Zé Cão: vai ouvindo
A luz do lampião que tava no canto do barraco, já no fim do querosene, teimava ainda em alumiar só um cadinho.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).