clockwork
/klɑːkwɚk/
The verdict
“clockwork” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #90,821 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,821
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mecanismo de relógio
Corpus desk
Index PT-clockwork · clockwork · Portuguese
clockwork · rank #90,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,821
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH conclamar
Nearest frequency peer: conclamar (+16 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 “clockwork”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- camorra
camorra
9,231 corpus weight
- canarana
canarana
9,228 corpus weight
- clockwork
clockwork
9,180 corpus weight
- conclamar
conclamar
9,164 corpus weight
- confrade
confrade
9,160 corpus weight
- congruente
congruente
9,159 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “clockwork” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clockwork |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klɑːkwɚk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “clockwork” em português
Rare enough to double-check
clockwork is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #90,821 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /klɑːkwɚk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mecanismo de relógio".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clockwork, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is clockwork, spelled C-L-O-C-K-W-O-R-K.
Definition
- 1mecanismo de relógio
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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