dingo
Portuguese, noun
dingo is spelled D-I-N-G-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,715th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dingo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dingo (wild dog native to Australia)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cão selvagem australiano da espécie Canis lupus dingus”.
What does dingo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedingo (wild dog native to Australia)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cão selvagem australiano da espécie Canis lupus dingus
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 dingo
- dingos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dingo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dingo in Portuguese?
dingo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).