criminal
The verdict
“criminal” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #3,890 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,890
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jurisdição que trata dos processos criminais
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criminal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “criminal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for criminal is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,890 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for criminal, with forms such as "ccriminal", "cirminal", and "criimnal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 criminal, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1jurisdição que trata dos processos criminais
- 2processo de um crime; tribunal de crimes
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccriminal,cirminal,criimnal,crimianl,criminall,criminla,criminnal,crimminal,crimnial,crmiinal,crriminal,rciminal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of criminal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “criminal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L - 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.