rabo de cavalo
The verdict
“rabo de cavalo” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - penteado em que o cabelo é posto todo para trás e junto é preso a partir da parte posterior da cabeça formando um feixe que pende
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabo de cavalo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rabo de cavalo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for rabo de cavalo is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "penteado em que o cabelo é posto todo para trás e junto é preso a partir da parte posterior da cabeça formando um feixe que pende".
rabo de cavalo has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 rabo de cavalo, spelled R-A-B-O- -D-E- -C-A-V-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1penteado em que o cabelo é posto todo para trás e junto é preso a partir da parte posterior da cabeça formando um feixe que pende
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “rabo de cavalo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-A-B-O- -D-E- -C-A-V-A-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.