candiru
Portuguese, noun
candiru is spelled C-A-N-D-I-R-U (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 115,974th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Candiru is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “candiru (a small parasitic fish, Vandellia cirrhosa, native to the Amazon river)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, candirú is a different word: “prescribed spelling of candiru under the Orthographic Agreement of…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação comum a vários peixes pequenos nematógnatos da Amazônia, entre os quais se distingue a espécie…”.
What does candiru mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecandiru (a small parasitic fish, Vandellia cirrhosa, native to the Amazon river)
noun
- 1
masculineprescribed spelling of candiru under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented; now a common misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação comum a vários peixes pequenos nematógnatos da Amazônia, entre os quais se distingue a espécie Vandellia cirrhosa, que comumente parasita as guelras de peixes, mas pode penetrar nos orifícios naturais do homem e de animais, dos quais pode ser desalojado somente com grande dificuldade, por causa dos espinhos eréteis das cobertas de suas guelras, os quais causam uma hemorragia abundante,
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of candiru
- candirús plural
- candirus plural
- candirú alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to candiru
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is candiru in Portuguese?
candiru appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).