zoólogo
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
- wie
wie
11,264 corpus weight
- xilindró
xilindró
11,259 corpus weight
- zarabatana
zarabatana
11,252 corpus weight
- zoólogo
zoólogo
11,248 corpus weight
- achara
achara
11,231 corpus weight
- acordeonista
acordeonista
11,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “zoólogo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zoólogo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “zoólogo” em português
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
- 1especialista em zoologia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zoólogo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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