croquete
/kɾɔ.ˈkɛ.tɨ/
The verdict
“croquete” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,715 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,715
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bolinho frito feito com carne ou soja moída
Corpus desk
Index PT-croquete · croquete · Portuguese
croquete · rank #64,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,715
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cromado
Nearest frequency peer: cromado (-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 “croquete”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cromado
cromado
35,288 corpus weight
- croquete
croquete
35,286 corpus weight
- cêntimo
cêntimo
35,278 corpus weight
- cópula
cópula
35,277 corpus weight
- deca
deca
35,272 corpus weight
- deformar
deformar
35,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “croquete” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croquete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɾɔ.ˈkɛ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “croquete” em português
Rare enough to double-check
croquete is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,715 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɾɔ.ˈkɛ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for croquete, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is croquete, spelled C-R-O-Q-U-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1bolinho frito feito com carne ou soja moída
- 2orgão sexual masculino, pênis
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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