croce
/ˈkrotʃe/
The verdict
“croce” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,468 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,468
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cruz
Corpus desk
Index PT-croce · croce · Portuguese
croce · rank #79,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,468
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH courrier
Nearest frequency peer: courrier (-8 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 “croce”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- coabitação
coabitação
20,580 corpus weight
- concelhio
concelhio
20,566 corpus weight
- courrier
courrier
20,541 corpus weight
- croce
croce
20,533 corpus weight
- decrépito
decrépito
20,513 corpus weight
- dengo
dengo
20,507 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “croce” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croce |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkrotʃe/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “croce” em português
Rare enough to double-check
croce is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,468 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkrotʃe/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cruz".
croce has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct Portuguese form is croce, spelled C-R-O-C-E.
Definition
- 1cruz
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).