braseiro
/bɾɐ.ˈzɐj.ɾu/
The verdict
“braseiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,770 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,770
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fogo de carvões incandescentes
Corpus desk
Index PT-braseiro · braseiro · Portuguese
braseiro · rank #73,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,770
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bípede
Nearest frequency peer: bípede (+11 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 “braseiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- atuarial
atuarial
26,272 corpus weight
- beb
beb
26,256 corpus weight
- beberrão
beberrão
26,255 corpus weight
- braseiro
braseiro
26,231 corpus weight
- bípede
bípede
26,220 corpus weight
- ceptro
ceptro
26,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “braseiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braseiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɾɐ.ˈzɐj.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “braseiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
braseiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,770 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɾɐ.ˈzɐj.ɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
braseiro has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is braseiro, spelled B-R-A-S-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1fogo de carvões incandescentes
- 2brasas colocadas em recipiente de metal ou louça para aquecer o ambiente
- 3braseira; borralho; fogo; incêndio
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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