clico

//'kli.ko// verb

The verdict

“clico” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #53,764 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.

#53,764
frequency rank, Portuguese
5
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo clicar

Key facts for clico
PropertyValue
Headwordclico
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/'kli.ko/
Letters5
Frequency rank#53,764
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “clico” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). clico lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for clico is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /'kli.ko/. Corpus data places it at rank #53,764 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo clicar".

No misspelling variants are generated for clico in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is clico, spelled C-L-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo clicar

Frequency rank: #53,764 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clico"?
"clico" is spelled C-L-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is /'kli.ko/.
What does "clico" mean?
As a verb, "clico" means: primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo clicar
How do you pronounce "clico"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clico" is /'kli.ko/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clico" come from?
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Using “clico”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-L-I-C-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /'kli.ko/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: 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.