cerrado
"cerrado" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cerrado” is uncommon English (frequency #93,531 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,531
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cerrado · cerrado · English
cerrado · rank #93,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,531
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cetus
Nearest frequency peer: Cetus (+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 “cerrado”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cattell
cattell
6,476 corpus weight
- caulker
caulker
6,475 corpus weight
- cerrado
cerrado
6,470 corpus weight
- Cetus
Cetus
6,469 corpus weight
- Channon
Channon
6,466 corpus weight
- chanteuse
chanteuse
6,465 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cerrado” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerrado |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cerrado” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cerrado is uncommon English at frequency #93,531 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cerrado has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Portuguese cerrado (literally “shut, thick”), from cerrar (“to shut”). The correct English form is cerrado, spelled C-E-R-R-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
- 2A region with this biome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cerrado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The biggest breakthrough on the horizon is coming on Latin America's vast cerrado, the seemingly endless grassy plains centered in Brazil. The cerrado covers more than 200 million hectares (500 million acres)—more than all the cultivated land that feeds India's more than 800 million people.
Etymology
From Portuguese cerrado (literally “shut, thick”), from cerrar (“to shut”).
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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