creo
/ˈkre.oː/.
The verdict
“creo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,881 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,881
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - criar, produzir, fazer.
Corpus desk
Index PT-creo · creo · Portuguese
creo · rank #54,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,881
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cronologicame…
Nearest frequency peer: cronologicamente (+3 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 “creo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- contraparte
contraparte
45,135 corpus weight
- corcel
corcel
45,131 corpus weight
- corolário
corolário
45,129 corpus weight
- creo
creo
45,120 corpus weight
- cronologica…
cronologicamente
45,117 corpus weight
- cómodo
cómodo
45,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “creo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkre.oː/. |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “creo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
creo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,881 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkre.oː/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for creo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is creo, spelled C-R-E-O.
Definition
- 1criar, produzir, fazer.
- 2gerar, dar à luz.
- 3preparar causar.
- 4escolher.
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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