cri
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,523
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cri is aPortuguesenoun. It means: povo indígena da América do Norte, que habitava desde as montanhas Rochosas até o oceano Atlântico, tanto nos Estados Unidos da América quanto no Canadá Pronounced /ˈkɾi/. Often confused with cu and cut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cri |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɾi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cri is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɾi/. Corpus data places it at rank #28,523 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cri in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cu", "cut", "cry", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cri, spelled C-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1povo indígena da América do Norte, que habitava desde as montanhas Rochosas até o oceano Atlântico, tanto nos Estados Unidos da América quanto no Canadá
- 2língua falada pelo povo cri
Frequency rank: #28,523 in Portuguese
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