cromossoma
/kɾɔ.mɔ.ˈso.mɐ/
The verdict
“cromossoma” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,754 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,754
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - longa sequência de ADN, que contém vários genes, e outras sequências de nucleótidos com funções específicas nas células dos seres vivos
| 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) |
Where “cromossoma” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cromossoma is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,754 among 3,948 “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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Using “cromossoma”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-R-O-M-O-S-S-O-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.