cloroquina
The verdict
“cloroquina” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,434 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,434
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - medicamento (C₁₈H₂₆CIN₃) antimalárico, antiamebiano e antirreumático
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloroquina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cloroquina” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cloroquina is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,434 among 3,948 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "medicamento (C₁₈H₂₆CIN₃) antimalárico, antiamebiano e antirreumático".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cloroquina in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cloroquina, spelled C-L-O-R-O-Q-U-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1medicamento (C₁₈H₂₆CIN₃) antimalárico, antiamebiano e antirreumático
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 “cloroquina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-L-O-R-O-Q-U-I-N-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.