cria
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,414
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cria is aPortuguesenoun. It means: animal de mama Pronounced /ˈkɾi.ɐ/. It ranks #2,414 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cry and cru.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cria |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɾi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cria is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɾi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,414 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cria, with forms such as "ccria", "cira", and "crai". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cry", "cru", "CSA", 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 cria, spelled C-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1animal de mama
- 2descendente, em especial um ainda não adulto
- 3descendente já adulto
- 4aquilo que resulta como ser vivente descedente do ato de seres que cruzaram-se
- 5aquilo que resulta como ser inanimado ou fabuloso descedente do ato de intercruzação de seres de igual qualidade
- 6obra, resultado do trabalho ou produção laboral manual ou intelectual
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccria,cira,crai,crria,rcia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cria
Misspelling Variants of "cria"
Frequency rank: #2,414 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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