cripta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,658
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
cripta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: compartimento subterrâneo de uma igreja, utilizado para sepultamentos ou para conservar relíquias de caráter religioso Often confused with crosta and crista.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cripta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cripta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #29,658 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cripta, with forms such as "ccripta", "cirpta", and "cripat". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "crosta", "crista", "cristal", 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 cripta, spelled C-R-I-P-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1compartimento subterrâneo de uma igreja, utilizado para sepultamentos ou para conservar relíquias de caráter religioso
- 2capela construída abaixo do nível do solo, sobre a qual pode ter sido erguida uma igreja principal
- 3corredor ou galeria subterrânea destinada a enterros; catacumba
- 4cavidade natural no subsolo, como uma gruta ou caverna
- 5lugar escondido ou de difícil acesso
- 6reentrância ou pequena cavidade em ossos ou tecidos
- 7depressão tubular presente em órgãos, como as criptas intestinais
- 8cavidade em órgãos vegetais
- 9espaço na superfície de certas folhas onde se localizam os estômatos
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccripta,cirpta,cripat,crippta,criptta,critpa,crpita,crripta,rcipta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cripta
Misspelling Variants of "cripta"
Frequency rank: #29,658 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: