cronómetro
/kɾu.ˈnɔ.mɨ.tɾu/
The verdict
“cronómetro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,777 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,777
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aparelho para medir o tempo
Corpus desk
Index PT-cronometro · cronómetro · Portuguese
cronómetro · rank #82,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,777
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH czarina
Nearest frequency peer: czarina (+3 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 “cronómetro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cronómetro
cronómetro
17,224 corpus weight
- czarina
czarina
17,221 corpus weight
- descalabro
descalabro
17,204 corpus weight
- desfigurar
desfigurar
17,199 corpus weight
- deslanchar
deslanchar
17,198 corpus weight
- desnaturado
desnaturado
17,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cronómetro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cronómetro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɾu.ˈnɔ.mɨ.tɾu/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cronómetro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cronómetro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,777 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɾu.ˈnɔ.mɨ.tɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cronómetro in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cronómetro, spelled C-R-O-N-Ó-M-E-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1aparelho para medir o tempo
- 2relógio de precisão
This word in other languages
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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