chinchila
/ʃĩˈʃi.lɐ/
The verdict
“chinchila” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,232 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,232
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequeno roedor crepuscular do gênero Chinchilla, nativo da Cordilheira dos Andes, apreciado por sua pelagem muito macia e frequentemente mantido como animal de estimação
Corpus desk
Index PT-chinchila · chinchila · Portuguese
chinchila · rank #80,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,232
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH civilmente
Nearest frequency peer: civilmente (+3 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 “chinchila”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bufão
bufão
19,811 corpus weight
- caldeirada
caldeirada
19,801 corpus weight
- camafeu
camafeu
19,797 corpus weight
- canastrão
canastrão
19,793 corpus weight
- chinchila
chinchila
19,769 corpus weight
- civilmente
civilmente
19,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “chinchila” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chinchila |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃĩˈʃi.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “chinchila” em português
Rare enough to double-check
chinchila is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,232 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃĩˈʃi.lɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequeno roedor crepuscular do gênero Chinchilla, nativo da Cordilheira dos Andes, apreciado por sua pelagem muito macia e frequentemente mantido como animal de estimação".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chinchila, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is chinchila, spelled C-H-I-N-C-H-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1pequeno roedor crepuscular do gênero Chinchilla, nativo da Cordilheira dos Andes, apreciado por sua pelagem muito macia e frequentemente mantido como animal de estimação
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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