cry
/kɹaɪ̯/
The verdict
“cry” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,412) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,412
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - choro
Corpus desk
Index PT-cry · cry · Portuguese
cry · rank #12,412 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,412
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH curte
Nearest frequency peer: curte (+1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “cry”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- conformidade
conformidade
87,593 corpus weight
- constar
constar
87,592 corpus weight
- coxa
coxa
87,591 corpus weight
- cry
cry
87,589 corpus weight
- curte
curte
87,588 corpus weight
- desconforto
desconforto
87,584 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cry” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cry |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹaɪ̯/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cry”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cry is neighbouring look-alikes ("cu", "cut", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kɹaɪ̯/. Frequency #12,412 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cry, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cu", "cut", "CSA", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is cry, spelled C-R-Y.
Definition
- 1choro
- 2grito
Antonyms
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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