cardo
/ˈkaɾ.du/
The verdict
“cardo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,020 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome dado a diversas espécies de plantas com espinhos nas folhas, no caule e/ou nas inflorescências; a maioria das espécies é da família das asteráceas (Asteraceae)
Corpus desk
Index PT-cardo · cardo · Portuguese
cardo · rank #62,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,020
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH canga
Nearest frequency peer: canga (-4 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 “cardo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- canga
canga
37,985 corpus weight
- cardo
cardo
37,981 corpus weight
- Cayenne
Cayenne
37,976 corpus weight
- charrete
charrete
37,968 corpus weight
- chavo
chavo
37,967 corpus weight
- coité
coité
37,954 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cardo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaɾ.du/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cardo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cardo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,020 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkaɾ.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nome dado a diversas espécies de plantas com espinhos nas folhas, no caule e/ou nas inflorescências; a maioria das espécies é da família das asteráceas (Asteraceae)".
No misspelling variants are generated for cardo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 cardo, spelled C-A-R-D-O.
Definition
- 1nome dado a diversas espécies de plantas com espinhos nas folhas, no caule e/ou nas inflorescências; a maioria das espécies é da família das asteráceas (Asteraceae)
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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