berílio
/bɨ.ˈɾi.lju/
The verdict
“berílio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,344 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,344
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elemento químico de símbolo Be, possui o número atômico 4 e massa atômica relativa 9; é extraído de diversos minerais encontrados na natureza, como o berilo, a água-marinha e a esmeralda; é um meta...
Corpus desk
Index PT-berilio · berílio · Portuguese
berílio · rank #85,344 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,344
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bicar
Nearest frequency peer: bicar (+4 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 “berílio”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- banzé
banzé
14,664 corpus weight
- berílio
berílio
14,657 corpus weight
- bicar
bicar
14,653 corpus weight
- bilha
bilha
14,651 corpus weight
- bravata
bravata
14,644 corpus weight
- caricaturis…
caricaturista
14,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “berílio” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berílio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɨ.ˈɾi.lju/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “berílio” em português
Rare enough to double-check
berílio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,344 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɨ.ˈɾi.lju/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "elemento químico de símbolo Be, possui o número atômico 4 e massa atômica relativa 9; é extraído de diversos minerais encontrados na natureza, como o berilo, a água-marinha e a esmeralda; é um meta...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for berílio, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is berílio, spelled B-E-R-Í-L-I-O.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo Be, possui o número atômico 4 e massa atômica relativa 9; é extraído de diversos minerais encontrados na natureza, como o berilo, a água-marinha e a esmeralda; é um metal alcalinoterroso, tóxico e de coloração cinza; é utilizado para aumentar a resistência de ligas metálicas utilizadas em reatores atômicos, foguetes e em equipamentos de precisão
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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