crac
The verdict
“crac” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #84,592 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #84,592
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa imitativamente som de um desmoronamento com ruído, ou de um objeto que estala ou se parte com estrondo
| 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) |
Where “crac” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for crac is 4 letters long, classified as an interjection. Corpus data places it at rank #84,592 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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 “crac”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-R-A-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.