ornitorrinco
/oɹ.ni.to.ˈχĩj.ku/
The verdict
“ornitorrinco” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,570 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,570
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mamífero monotremado da família dos ornitorrinquídeos
Corpus desk
Index PT-ornitorrinco · ornitorrinco · Portuguese
ornitorrinco · rank #54,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,570
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH ordenança
Nearest frequency peer: ordenança (-2 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 “ornitorrinco”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Núbia
Núbia
45,443 corpus weight
- núncio
núncio
45,442 corpus weight
- ordenança
ordenança
45,433 corpus weight
- ornitorrinco
ornitorrinco
45,431 corpus weight
- oscilante
oscilante
45,427 corpus weight
- pacato
pacato
45,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ornitorrinco” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ornitorrinco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /oɹ.ni.to.ˈχĩj.ku/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ornitorrinco” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ornitorrinco is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,570 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /oɹ.ni.to.ˈχĩj.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mamífero monotremado da família dos ornitorrinquídeos".
ornitorrinco doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ornitorrinco, spelled O-R-N-I-T-O-R-R-I-N-C-O.
Definition
- 1mamífero monotremado da família dos ornitorrinquídeos
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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