carioca
"carioca" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carioca” is uncommon English (frequency #92,432 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,432
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carioca · carioca · English
carioca · rank #92,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,432
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH carabao
Nearest frequency peer: carabao (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “carioca”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Canales
Canales
7,573 corpus weight
- cannibalized
cannibalized
7,572 corpus weight
- Capernaum
Capernaum
7,571 corpus weight
- carabao
carabao
7,570 corpus weight
- carioca
carioca
7,569 corpus weight
- caroling
caroling
7,568 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “carioca” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carioca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “carioca” in English
Rare enough to double-check
carioca is uncommon English at frequency #92,432 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
carioca has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Portuguese carioca. The correct English form is carioca, spelled C-A-R-I-O-C-A.
Definition
- 1A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.
- 2Alternative form of Carioca.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carioca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the final phase, the athlete works in non-cleated shoes on starts, stops, jumps, rounded side-step cuts, and crossover cuts, advancing to hard 90° cuts, and running tighter and tighter figures-of-eight. Defensive backs run sideways and backward and perform carioca (crossover) steps.
These included the cocontraction maneuver (a shuffling maneuver around a semicircle while tethered to surgical tubing), a carioca (crossover stepping), and a shuttle run (an acceleration and deceleration test).
Etymology
From Portuguese carioca.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).