zoólogo

noun

The verdict

“zoólogo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,753 among 42 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,753
frequency rank, Portuguese
42
“Z” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - especialista em zoologia

Corpus desk

Index PT-zoologo · zoólogo · Portuguese

zoólogo · rank #88,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,753
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 42
  • PHOTO-FINISH zarabatana

Nearest frequency peer: zarabatana (-4 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 “zoólogo”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “zoólogo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for zoólogo
PropertyValue
Headwordzoólogo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#88,753
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “zoólogo” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.zoólogocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “zarabatana” (#88,749), “xilindró” (#88,742), “wie” (#88,737). Entre 42 lemas com “Z”, “zoólogo” fica em #88,753. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

zoólogo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,753 among 42 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "especialista em zoologia".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zoólogo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is zoólogo, spelled Z-O-Ó-L-O-G-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    especialista em zoologia

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how zoólogo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Isso em uma terra onde, há mais de 70 anos, o zoólogo Cândido de Mello Leitão fazia no rádio um programa chamado A Vida Maravilhosa dos Animais.

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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zoólogo"?
"zoólogo" is spelled Z-O-Ó-L-O-G-O.
What does "zoólogo" mean?
As a noun, "zoólogo" means: especialista em zoologia
What language does "zoólogo" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "zoólogo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list