carriça
Portuguese, noun/kaˈʁi.sɐ/
carriça is spelled C-A-R-R-I-Ç-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 154,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carriça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “wren (bird of family Troglolytidae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pássaro também chamado carriço, da espécie Troglodytes troglodytes”.
What does carriça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewren (bird of family Troglolytidae)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pássaro também chamado carriço, da espécie Troglodytes troglodytes 2. monte de erva 3. uma espécie de junco ou cana brava
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of carriça
- carriças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carriça?
- Brazil /kaˈʁi.sɐ/
- Brazil [kaˈhi.sɐ]
- /kaˈʁi.sɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carriça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carriça in Portuguese?
carriça appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).