jacutinga

noun

The verdict

“jacutinga” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,640 among 196 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,640
frequency rank, Portuguese
196
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ave galliforme da família Cracidae, de plumagem negra com manchas brancas, papo vermelho e azul, conhecida também como peru-do-mato, nativa da Mata Atlântica e ameaçada de extinção

Corpus desk

Index PT-jacutinga · jacutinga · Portuguese

jacutinga · rank #55,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,640
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 196
  • PHOTO-FINISH irrisório

Nearest frequency peer: irrisório (-4 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 “jacutinga”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “jacutinga” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for jacutinga
PropertyValue
Headwordjacutinga
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#55,640
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “jacutinga” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).jacutingacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “irrisório” (#55,636), “karaté” (#55,648), “lampejo” (#55,654). Entre 196 lemas com “J”, “jacutinga” fica em #55,640. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jacutinga is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,640 among 196 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ave galliforme da família Cracidae, de plumagem negra com manchas brancas, papo vermelho e azul, conhecida também como peru-do-mato, nativa da Mata Atlântica e ameaçada de extinção".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jacutinga, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is jacutinga, spelled J-A-C-U-T-I-N-G-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    ave galliforme da família Cracidae, de plumagem negra com manchas brancas, papo vermelho e azul, conhecida também como peru-do-mato, nativa da Mata Atlântica e ameaçada de extinção

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how jacutinga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A jacutinga alimenta-se de frutos e realiza migrações altitudinais acompanhando a frutificação das árvores

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jacutinga"?
"jacutinga" is spelled J-A-C-U-T-I-N-G-A.
What does "jacutinga" mean?
As a noun, "jacutinga" means: ave galliforme da família Cracidae, de plumagem negra com manchas brancas, papo vermelho e azul, conhecida também como peru-do-mato, nativa da Mata Atlântica e ameaçada de extinção
What language does "jacutinga" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jacutinga", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list