canary
/kəˈnɛɹi/
The verdict
“canary” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,557 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,557
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - canário
Corpus desk
Index PT-canary · canary · Portuguese
canary · rank #74,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,557
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH capitular
Nearest frequency peer: capitular (+2 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 “canary”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- brâmane
brâmane
25,457 corpus weight
- cafundó
cafundó
25,451 corpus weight
- cambraia
cambraia
25,447 corpus weight
- canary
canary
25,444 corpus weight
- capitular
capitular
25,442 corpus weight
- champanha
champanha
25,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “canary” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canary |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈnɛɹi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “canary” em português
Rare enough to double-check
canary is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,557 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈnɛɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "canário".
Zero misspellings are on record for canary in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is canary, spelled C-A-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1canário
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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