curro
/ˈkur.roː/
The verdict
“curro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,472 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,472
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - correr
Corpus desk
Index PT-curro · curro · Portuguese
curro · rank #85,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,472
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cumbia
Nearest frequency peer: cumbia (-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 “curro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- crave
crave
14,537 corpus weight
- crueza
crueza
14,533 corpus weight
- cumbia
cumbia
14,531 corpus weight
- curro
curro
14,529 corpus weight
- cântaro
cântaro
14,524 corpus weight
- debilitar
debilitar
14,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “curro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkur.roː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “curro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
curro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,472 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkur.roː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for curro, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 curro, spelled C-U-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1correr
- 2apressar-se
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).