Had to use a word I knew wasn't the answer (POINT) in order to get to today's word as, again, PINTO's a word I did not know existed in current English vocabulary (except for the Ford Pinto engine).
As a small curiosity, PINTO in Portuguese is also related to animals, but it's a totally different one:
It's a type of bean here in America. I used OFTEN, STONE, TONER but went with PINOT next because I thought it ended NOT. Good thing I did use that because I knew then it had to be PINTO.