guppy
/ˈɡʌpi/
The verdict
“guppy” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #99,841 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,841
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequeno peixe de água doce, Poecilia reticulata, popular em aquários domésticos, que geralmente tem corpo liso e cauda preta ou azul-escura nas fêmeas e uma cauda mais colorida nos machos; podem va...
Corpus desk
Index PT-guppy · guppy · Portuguese
guppy · rank #99,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,841
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH hermetismo
Nearest frequency peer: hermetismo (+8 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 “guppy”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- gauge
gauge
196 corpus weight
- guppy
guppy
160 corpus weight
- hermetismo
hermetismo
152 corpus weight
- hipogrifo
hipogrifo
149 corpus weight
- hitting
hitting
148 corpus weight
- iatismo
iatismo
133 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “guppy” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guppy |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡʌpi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “guppy” em português
Rare enough to double-check
guppy is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #99,841 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡʌpi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequeno peixe de água doce, Poecilia reticulata, popular em aquários domésticos, que geralmente tem corpo liso e cauda preta ou azul-escura nas fêmeas e uma cauda mais colorida nos machos; podem va...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for guppy in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is guppy, spelled G-U-P-P-Y.
Definition
- 1pequeno peixe de água doce, Poecilia reticulata, popular em aquários domésticos, que geralmente tem corpo liso e cauda preta ou azul-escura nas fêmeas e uma cauda mais colorida nos machos; podem variar de tamanho, mas os machos medem 4 cm e as fêmeas 7 cm
Synonyms
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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