crachávscrackWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: crachá is a noun, crack is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“crachá” is a noun and “crack” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,521
“crachá” frequency rank
#11,042
“crack” frequency rank
39563
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature crachá crack
Definition insígnia honorífica que se traz ao peito; condecoração craquear

Letter map: crachá vs crack

Shared letters muted; letters that set crachá and crack apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. crachá runs 6 letters (CCVCCV) against crack's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
crachá
5 ch
crack

Part-of-speech tell for crachá / crack

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: crachá is anoun and crackaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39563, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

crachá is recorded at frequency rank #28,521, classified as anoun, pronounced /kɾa.ˈʃa/. crack is at rank #11,042, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 39563, this pair ranks #26,658 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of crachá vs crack

Shared letters: acr. Private to "crachá": há. Private to "crack": k.

"crachá" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV  ·  "crack" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • crack ← carck · ccrack · cracck · crackk · crakc · crcak · crrack · rcack

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "crachá" for "crack" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "crachá" is a noun and "crack" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "crachá" vs "crack" - which ranks higher?
"crack" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,042 in our Portuguese list, against #28,521 for "crachá". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "crachá" vs "crack" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "crachá" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "crack" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #26,658 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "crachá" and "crack" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "colcha vs crachá". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #26,658 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list