girino
/ʒɪ.ˈɾi.nʊ/
The verdict
“girino” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,776 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,776
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - larva de anfíbios, sujeita a metamorfose antes de chegar ao estado adulto:
Corpus desk
Index PT-girino · girino · Portuguese
girino · rank #74,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,776
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gli
Nearest frequency peer: gli (+1 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 “girino”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fruição
fruição
25,243 corpus weight
- gerúndio
gerúndio
25,227 corpus weight
- girino
girino
25,225 corpus weight
- gli
gli
25,224 corpus weight
- guilt
guilt
25,214 corpus weight
- hater
hater
25,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “girino” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girino |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒɪ.ˈɾi.nʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “girino” em português
Rare enough to double-check
girino is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,776 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʒɪ.ˈɾi.nʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "larva de anfíbios, sujeita a metamorfose antes de chegar ao estado adulto:".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for girino, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is girino, spelled G-I-R-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1larva de anfíbios, sujeita a metamorfose antes de chegar ao estado adulto:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how girino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os girinos da espécie Pseudophryne desenvolvem-se dentro dos ovos e, quando atingem tamanho para sair do ovo, entram em dormência.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).