carijó

noun

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The verdict

“carijó” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,012 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,012
frequency rank, Portuguese
3,948
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - membro de um grupo indígena de origem guarani que habitava o litoral sul do Brasil, especialmente entre São Paulo e Rio Grande do Sul, durante o período colonial

Key facts for carijó
PropertyValue
Headwordcarijó
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#88,012
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “carijó” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). carijó lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

carijó is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,012 among 3,948 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for carijó in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is carijó, spelled C-A-R-I-J-Ó.

Definition

  1. 1
    membro de um grupo indígena de origem guarani que habitava o litoral sul do Brasil, especialmente entre São Paulo e Rio Grande do Sul, durante o período colonial
  2. 2
    variedade de galinha doméstica caracterizada por plumagem rajada em tons de branco e preto, também chamada de galinha carijó

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carijó"?
"carijó" is spelled C-A-R-I-J-Ó.
What does "carijó" mean?
As a noun, "carijó" means: membro de um grupo indígena de origem guarani que habitava o litoral sul do Brasil, especialmente entre São Paulo e Rio Grande do Sul, durante o período colonial
What language does "carijó" come from?
"carijó" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “carijó”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-R-I-J-Ó - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list