cão-marinho
/'kaŋ - ma.'ɾi.ɲo/
The verdict
“cão-marinho” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cação-bico-de-cristal (Galeorhinus galeus)
Corpus desk
Index PT-cao-marinho · cão-marinho · Portuguese
cão-marinho · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cão-marinho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'kaŋ - ma.'ɾi.ɲo/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cão-marinho” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cão-marinho is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /'kaŋ - ma.'ɾi.ɲo/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cação-bico-de-cristal (Galeorhinus galeus)".
Zero misspellings are on record for cão-marinho in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cão-marinho, spelled C-Ã-O---M-A-R-I-N-H-O.
Definition
- 1cação-bico-de-cristal (Galeorhinus galeus)
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.