onça-pintada
The verdict
“onça-pintada” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mamífero da ordem dos carnívoros, membro da família dos felídeos, encontrada nas regiões quentes e temperadas do continente americano
Corpus desk
Index PT-onca-pintada · onça-pintada · Portuguese
onça-pintada · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | onça-pintada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “onça-pintada” em português
Rare enough to double-check
onça-pintada is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mamífero da ordem dos carnívoros, membro da família dos felídeos, encontrada nas regiões quentes e temperadas do continente americano".
No generated misspelling entries exist for onça-pintada in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 onça-pintada, spelled O-N-Ç-A---P-I-N-T-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1mamífero da ordem dos carnívoros, membro da família dos felídeos, encontrada nas regiões quentes e temperadas do continente americano
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how onça-pintada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A onça-pintada é uma das espécies da fauna brasileira ameaçadas de extinção.
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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.