cromossoma
/kɾɔ.mɔ.ˈso.mɐ/
The verdict
“cromossoma” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,754 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,754
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - longa sequência de ADN, que contém vários genes, e outras sequências de nucleótidos com funções específicas nas células dos seres vivos
Corpus desk
Index PT-cromossoma · cromossoma · Portuguese
cromossoma · rank #62,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,754
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH customizar
Nearest frequency peer: customizar (+6 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 “cromossoma”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cosmético
cosmético
37,257 corpus weight
- cromossoma
cromossoma
37,247 corpus weight
- customizar
customizar
37,241 corpus weight
- decretação
decretação
37,237 corpus weight
- dedada
dedada
37,236 corpus weight
- delira
delira
37,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cromossoma” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cromossoma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɾɔ.mɔ.ˈso.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cromossoma” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cromossoma is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,754 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɾɔ.mɔ.ˈso.mɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "longa sequência de ADN, que contém vários genes, e outras sequências de nucleótidos com funções específicas nas células dos seres vivos".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cromossoma, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cromossoma, spelled C-R-O-M-O-S-S-O-M-A.
Definition
- 1longa sequência de ADN, que contém vários genes, e outras sequências de nucleótidos com funções específicas nas células dos seres vivos
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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