carótida
The verdict
“carótida” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,808 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,808
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - cada uma das duas artérias, direita e esquerda, localizadas no pescoço e que irrigam a cabeça
| 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) |
Where “carótida” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carótida is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,808 among 3,948 “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
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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Using “carótida”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-R-Ó-T-I-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.