zangão
/pɾo.nˈũ.sjɐ/
The verdict
“zangão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,640 among 42 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,640
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - macho da abelha
Corpus desk
Index PT-zangao · zangão · Portuguese
zangão · rank #77,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,640
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH vindima
Nearest frequency peer: vindima (-15 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “zangão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vec
vec
22,381 corpus weight
- vindima
vindima
22,376 corpus weight
- zangão
zangão
22,361 corpus weight
- Achilles
Achilles
22,346 corpus weight
- acionador
acionador
22,344 corpus weight
- Adolphe
Adolphe
22,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “zangão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zangão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾo.nˈũ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “zangão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
zangão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,640 among 42 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɾo.nˈũ.sjɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for zangão in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is zangão, spelled Z-A-N-G-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1macho da abelha
- 2gênero Bombus, o mesmo que mamangaba
- 3aquele que vive à custa dos outros; parasita; agiota
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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