canha
/'kaɲo/
The verdict
“canha” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,562 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,562
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cadela, fêmea do cão
Corpus desk
Index PT-canha · canha · Portuguese
canha · rank #78,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,562
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH carago
Nearest frequency peer: carago (+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 “canha”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- boucher
boucher
21,460 corpus weight
- braçada
braçada
21,456 corpus weight
- buxo
buxo
21,448 corpus weight
- canha
canha
21,439 corpus weight
- carago
carago
21,437 corpus weight
- chaise
chaise
21,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “canha” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'kaɲo/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “canha” em português
Rare enough to double-check
canha is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,562 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /'kaɲo/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cadela, fêmea do cão".
Zero misspellings are on record for canha in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is canha, spelled C-A-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1cadela, fêmea do cão
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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