ximango

//ʃiˈmɐ̃.ɡu// noun

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Portuguese

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ximango is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espécie de gavião (ave falconídea Milvago chimango), comum na região sul da América do Sul, de cor ocre e creme, com uma mancha clara em cada asa e lado ventral bruno-amarelado com estrias longitud... Pronounced /ʃiˈmɐ̃.ɡu/.

Key facts for ximango
PropertyValue
Headwordximango
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ʃiˈmɐ̃.ɡu/
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ximango is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for ximango is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʃiˈmɐ̃.ɡu/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ximango in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 ximango, spelled X-I-M-A-N-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    espécie de gavião (ave falconídea Milvago chimango), comum na região sul da América do Sul, de cor ocre e creme, com uma mancha clara em cada asa e lado ventral bruno-amarelado com estrias longitudinais escuras, tamanho de até 40 cm
  2. 2
    apelido pejorativo dado pelos chamados farroupilhas ou jururubas aos seus adversários, durante a Guerra dos Farrapos (1835–1845) que eclodiu durante o Período Regencial brasileiro (1831-1840) e parte do Segundo Reinado, e cujo maior líder foi o Padre Feijó
  3. 3
    apelido pejorativo dado pelos chamados farroupilhas ou jururubas aos seus adversários, durante a Guerra dos Farrapos (1835–1845) que eclodiu durante o Período Regencial brasileiro (1831-1840) e parte do Segundo Reinado, e cujo maior líder foi o Padre Feijó
  4. 4
    nome dado a um tipo de bolo salgado, feito com fécula de mandioca, água, leite e ovos, temperado com sal e erva-doce (no caso, a planta também denominada endro, Anethum graveolens)
  5. 5
    espécie de tenaz feita de arame trançado, usada como instrumento para pegar as brasas nos fogões a lenha e fogueiras

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ximango"?
"ximango" is spelled X-I-M-A-N-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ʃiˈmɐ̃.ɡu/.
What does "ximango" mean?
As a noun, "ximango" means: espécie de gavião (ave falconídea Milvago chimango), comum na região sul da América do Sul, de cor ocre e creme, com uma mancha clara em cada asa e lado ventral bruno-amarelado com estrias longitud...
How do you pronounce "ximango"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ximango" is /ʃiˈmɐ̃.ɡu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ximango" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.