porco-espinho
The verdict
“porco-espinho” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: mamífero roedor pertencente à família Erethizontidae ou Hystricidae
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porco-espinho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porco-espinho” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for porco-espinho is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mamífero roedor pertencente à família Erethizontidae ou Hystricidae".
No misspelling variants are generated for porco-espinho in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is porco-espinho, spelled P-O-R-C-O---E-S-P-I-N-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mamífero roedor pertencente à família Erethizontidae ou Hystricidae
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Using “porco-espinho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-R-C-O---E-S-P-I-N-H-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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