tanuki
Portuguese, noun
tanuki is spelled T-A-N-U-K-I (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 112,486th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tanuki is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “raccoon dog; tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides, a canid of East Asia)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does tanuki mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineraccoon dog; tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides, a canid of East Asia)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of tanuki
- tanukis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tanuki in Portuguese?
tanuki appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).