linguado
/łĩˈgwadu/
The verdict
“linguado” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #51,711 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #51,711
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - designação extensiva a peixes com corpo achatado e alongado
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linguado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /łĩˈgwadu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “linguado” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for linguado is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /łĩˈgwadu/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,711 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
linguado doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 linguado, spelled L-I-N-G-U-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1designação extensiva a peixes com corpo achatado e alongado
- 2língua grande
- 3conversa ou linguagem inconveniente
- 4beijo entre bocas, quando se usa a língua
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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Using “linguado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-I-N-G-U-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /łĩˈgwadu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.