carrancudo
/kɐ.Rɐ̃.ˈku.du/
The verdict
“carrancudo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,528 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,528
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diz-se de quem tem carranca
Corpus desk
Index PT-carrancudo · carrancudo · Portuguese
carrancudo · rank #84,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,528
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH campineiro
Nearest frequency peer: campineiro (-5 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 “carrancudo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Bhutan
Bhutan
15,513 corpus weight
- bici
bici
15,512 corpus weight
- campineiro
campineiro
15,478 corpus weight
- carrancudo
carrancudo
15,473 corpus weight
- compactar
compactar
15,440 corpus weight
- complementa…
complementarmente
15,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carrancudo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrancudo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kɐ.Rɐ̃.ˈku.du/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carrancudo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carrancudo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,528 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kɐ.Rɐ̃.ˈku.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carrancudo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is carrancudo, spelled C-A-R-R-A-N-C-U-D-O.
Definition
- 1diz-se de quem tem carranca
- 2diz-se de quem está de mau humor
- 3nublado e com temperatura baixa
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carrancudo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nada de ficar carrancudo e de cara feia até porque a gente não ganha voto de cara feia.
Hoje o dia está carrancudo.
Synonyms
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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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