mergulhão-pequeno
/mer.gu.'ʎoŋ - pe.'ke.no/
The verdict
“mergulhão-pequeno” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mergulhão-pequeno, (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Corpus desk
Index PT-mergulhao-pequeno · mergulhão-pequeno · Portuguese
mergulhão-pequeno · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mergulhão-pequeno |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mer.gu.'ʎoŋ - pe.'ke.no/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “mergulhão-pequeno” em português
Rare enough to double-check
mergulhão-pequeno is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /mer.gu.'ʎoŋ - pe.'ke.no/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mergulhão-pequeno, (Tachybaptus ruficollis)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mergulhão-pequeno in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is mergulhão-pequeno, spelled M-E-R-G-U-L-H-Ã-O---P-E-Q-U-E-N-O.
Definition
- 1mergulhão-pequeno, (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.