crosta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,280
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
crosta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: parte mais dura formada em volta de algo, geralmente mais mole no interior Pronounced /ˈkɾos.tɐ/. Often confused with custa and cota.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crosta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɾos.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for crosta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɾos.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #23,280 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for crosta, with forms such as "ccrosta", "corsta", and "crosat". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "custa", "cota", "cost", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is crosta, spelled C-R-O-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1parte mais dura formada em volta de algo, geralmente mais mole no interior
- 2camada enrigecida (de rocha ou outro material) mais externa de um planeta ou outro corpo celeste sólido que vai da sua superfície até as camadas mais internas
- 3parte superior da Terra, constituída principalmente por granito (rocha ígnea composta essencialmente por quartzo e feldspato) na parte superior, e na inferior por basalto (também uma rocha ígnea eruptiva, constituída principalmente de plagioclásio e piroxênio e, em muitos casos, de olivina), situada acima do manto e dividida basicamente em crosta continental e oceânica
- 4superfície dura resultante da primária cicatrização de um ferimento, sendo constituída principalmente por sangue coagulado e plasma sanguíneo
- 5(e micologia) parte de um líquen que o prende à superfície na qual se desenvolve
- 6camada excretada por moluscos e crustáceos que, solidificando-se, forma-lhes o exoesqueleto característico
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrosta,corsta,crosat,crossta,crostta,crotsa,crrosta,crsota,rcosta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crosta
Misspelling Variants of "crosta"
Frequency rank: #23,280 in Portuguese
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