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crônica

Portuguese, noun

crônica is spelled C-R-Ô-N-I-C-A (7 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,515th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crônica is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of crónica” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of crônico. With an accent, crónica is a different word: “chronicle”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide definições em crónica”.

What does crônica mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineBrazilian Portuguese standard spelling of crónica

adjective

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of crônico

noun

as crónica
  1. 1

    femininechronicle

  2. 2

    femininecolumn, article

  3. 3

    femininenarrative, account

adjective

as crónica
  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of crónico

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. narração histórica pela ordem do tempo em que os fatos ocorreram 2. conjunto de notícias que circulam sobre pessoas 3. seção de jornal onde se comentam notícias e fatos quotidianos 4. história da vida de um rei

noun: 1. vide definições em crónica

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of crônica

  • crónicas plural
  • crônica alternative Brazil
  • chronica alternative
  • chrónica alternative
  • crônicas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to crônica

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is crônica in Portuguese?

crônica appears 9.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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