suricato

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for suricato is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #78,345 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mamífero carnívoro da família Herpestidae, de nome científico Suricata suricatta, único representante do gênero Suricata, nativo do sul da África, conhecido pelo comportamento social e pela postura...".

No misspelling variants are generated for suricato 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 suricato, spelled S-U-R-I-C-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.