crac
The verdict
“crac” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,592 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,592
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressa imitativamente som de um desmoronamento com ruído, ou de um objeto que estala ou se parte com estrondo
Corpus desk
Index PT-crac · crac · Portuguese
crac · rank #84,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,592
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH crepuscular
Nearest frequency peer: crepuscular (+4 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 “crac”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- compactar
compactar
15,440 corpus weight
- complementa…
complementarmente
15,438 corpus weight
- crac
crac
15,409 corpus weight
- crepuscular
crepuscular
15,405 corpus weight
- deia
deia
15,389 corpus weight
- desapropria…
desapropriado
15,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “crac” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crac |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “crac” em português
Rare enough to double-check
crac is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,592 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "expressa imitativamente som de um desmoronamento com ruído, ou de um objeto que estala ou se parte com estrondo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crac, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is crac, spelled C-R-A-C.
Definition
- 1expressa imitativamente som de um desmoronamento com ruído, ou de um objeto que estala ou se parte com estrondo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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