carretel
The verdict
“carretel” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,617 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,617
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cilindro onde se enrolam fios ou linha de costura
Corpus desk
Index PT-carretel · carretel · Portuguese
carretel · rank #52,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,617
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH camundongo
Nearest frequency peer: camundongo (-8 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 “carretel”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Butter
Butter
47,395 corpus weight
- cambojano
cambojano
47,393 corpus weight
- camundongo
camundongo
47,392 corpus weight
- carretel
carretel
47,384 corpus weight
- chulé
chulé
47,373 corpus weight
- cobalt
cobalt
47,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “carretel” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carretel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “carretel” em português
Rare enough to double-check
carretel is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,617 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for carretel in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is carretel, spelled C-A-R-R-E-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1cilindro onde se enrolam fios ou linha de costura
- 2ânus
- 3rolo de metal ou plástico no qual é enrolado o filme ou a fita magnética; bobina
- 4cilindro que gira sobre um eixo, e do qual se desprende da barquinha o fio de medir a velocidade do navio
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how carretel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A mãe de Sônia ainda teve tempo de levar um par de óculos e um carretel de linha , lembranças da filha.
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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