crochet
\kʁɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“crochet” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,041 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,041
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gancho
Corpus desk
Index PT-crochet · crochet · Portuguese
crochet · rank #77,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,041
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH crónico
Nearest frequency peer: crónico (+2 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 “crochet”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- crochet
crochet
22,960 corpus weight
- crónico
crónico
22,958 corpus weight
- decatlo
decatlo
22,948 corpus weight
- desvanecer
desvanecer
22,930 corpus weight
- devassidão
devassidão
22,928 corpus weight
- diverticuli…
diverticulite
22,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “crochet” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crochet |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “crochet” em português
Rare enough to double-check
crochet is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,041 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for crochet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is crochet, spelled C-R-O-C-H-E-T.
Definition
- 1gancho
- 2colchete
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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