carótida
The verdict
“carótida” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,808 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,808
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cada uma das duas artérias, direita e esquerda, localizadas no pescoço e que irrigam a cabeça
Corpus desk
Index PT-carotida · carótida · Portuguese
carótida · rank #60,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,808
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH chamber
Nearest frequency peer: chamber (+9 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 “carótida”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- brin
brin
39,211 corpus weight
- brun
brun
39,209 corpus weight
- carótida
carótida
39,193 corpus weight
- chamber
chamber
39,184 corpus weight
- charco
charco
39,183 corpus weight
- cobiçar
cobiçar
39,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carótida” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carótida |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carótida” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carótida is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,808 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cada uma das duas artérias, direita e esquerda, localizadas no pescoço e que irrigam a cabeça".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carótida, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is carótida, spelled C-A-R-Ó-T-I-D-A.
Definition
- 1cada uma das duas artérias, direita e esquerda, localizadas no pescoço e que irrigam a cabeça
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carótida appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os médicos removeram uma placa ulcerada que estava obstruindo a carótida direita.
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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