cavanhaque
/ka.vɐ̃ˈɲa.ki/
The verdict
“cavanhaque” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,197 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,197
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - barba aparada em bico no queixo
Corpus desk
Index PT-cavanhaque · cavanhaque · Portuguese
cavanhaque · rank #53,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,197
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cestinha
Nearest frequency peer: cestinha (+6 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 “cavanhaque”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- blur
blur
46,828 corpus weight
- bocaina
bocaina
46,827 corpus weight
- cavanhaque
cavanhaque
46,804 corpus weight
- cestinha
cestinha
46,798 corpus weight
- Comanche
Comanche
46,786 corpus weight
- compota
compota
46,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cavanhaque” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavanhaque |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ka.vɐ̃ˈɲa.ki/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cavanhaque” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cavanhaque is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,197 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ka.vɐ̃ˈɲa.ki/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cavanhaque in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cavanhaque, spelled C-A-V-A-N-H-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1barba aparada em bico no queixo
- 2pera
This word in other languages
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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