carão

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#70,114

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

carão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: vergonha em público

Key facts for carão
PropertyValue
Headwordcarão
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#70,114
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carão in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for carão is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #70,114 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for carão in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is carão, spelled C-A-R-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    vergonha em público
  2. 2
    repreensão severa
  3. 3
    atitude esnobe, ares de importância, "blasé"
  4. 4
    cara grande
  5. 5
    carantonha : (cara feia, carranca)
  6. 6
    epiderme do rosto
  7. 7
    esponja coralínea
  8. 8
    coração da maçã; interior da castanha, da noz, interno das pevides

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #70,114 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carão"?
"carão" is spelled C-A-R-Ã-O.
What does "carão" mean?
As a noun, "carão" means: vergonha em público
What language does "carão" come from?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.