corcel

noun

The verdict

“corcel” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #54,870 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#54,870
frequency rank, Portuguese
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: cavalo de raça

Key facts for corcel
PropertyValue
Headwordcorcel
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#54,870
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “corcel” 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). corcel 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 corcel is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #54,870 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "cavalo de raça".

No misspelling variants are generated for corcel 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 corcel, spelled C-O-R-C-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    cavalo de raça

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #54,870 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corcel"?
"corcel" is spelled C-O-R-C-E-L.
What does "corcel" mean?
As a noun, "corcel" means: cavalo de raça
What language does "corcel" come from?
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Using “corcel”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-R-C-E-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • 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.