bjørn

noun

The verdict

“bjørn” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,805 among 2,073 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,805
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,073
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - urso, mamífero da família dos ursídeos (Ursidae):

Key facts for bjørn
PropertyValue
Headwordbjørn
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#89,805
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “bjørn” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). bjørn lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bjørn is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,805 among 2,073 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "urso, mamífero da família dos ursídeos (Ursidae):".

Zero misspellings are on record for bjørn in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bjørn, spelled B-J-Ø-R-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    urso, mamífero da família dos ursídeos (Ursidae):

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bjørn"?
"bjørn" is spelled B-J-Ø-R-N.
What does "bjørn" mean?
As a noun, "bjørn" means: urso, mamífero da família dos ursídeos (Ursidae):
What language does "bjørn" come from?
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Using “bjørn”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-J-Ø-R-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list