feneco
Portuguese, noun
feneco is spelled F-E-N-E-C-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese, the 229,473rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Feneco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “fennec (Vulpes zerda, a fox species of the Sahara)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, feneço is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of fenecer”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequena raposa (Vulpes zerda), considerada o menor dos canídeos, nativa do Saara (exceto na região costeira)…”.
What does feneco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerarefennec (Vulpes zerda, a fox species of the Sahara)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fenecer
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequena raposa (Vulpes zerda), considerada o menor dos canídeos, nativa do Saara (exceto na região costeira) da Mauritânia à península do Sinai, caracterizada por ter orelhas proporcionalmente muito grandes que têm a função, além de localiza presas ou ameaças, dissipar o calor, adaptada ao ambiente desértico com altas temperaturas e pouca água também na pelagem cor de areia (reflete a irradiação d
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 feneco
- fenecos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to feneco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is feneco in Portuguese?
feneco appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).