hirax
Portuguese, noun
hirax is spelled H-I-R-A-X (5 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese, the 233,859th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hirax is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hyrax (mammal of the order Hyracoidea)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, hírax is a different word: “alternative form of hirax”.
What does hirax mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehyrax (mammal of the order Hyracoidea)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of hirax
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of hirax
- hiraxes plural
- hírax alternative
- híraxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hirax
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hirax in Portuguese?
hirax appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).