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pelicanos

Portuguese, noun

pelicanos is spelled P-E-L-I-C-A-N-O-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 74,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelicanos is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of pelicano” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pelos abundantes e longos que algumas raças vacuns tem interiormente no pavilhão da orelha”.

What does pelicanos mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    plural of pelicano

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. pelos abundantes e longos que algumas raças vacuns tem interiormente no pavilhão da orelha

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How common is pelicanos in Portuguese?

pelicanos appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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