breca
/ˈbɾɛ.kɐ/
The verdict
“breca” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,662 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,662
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - contração espasmódica e dolorosa do tecido muscular
Corpus desk
Index PT-breca · breca · Portuguese
breca · rank #62,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,662
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Cambodia
Nearest frequency peer: Cambodia (+17 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 “breca”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- banalizar
banalizar
37,366 corpus weight
- barlavento
barlavento
37,362 corpus weight
- breca
breca
37,339 corpus weight
- Cambodia
Cambodia
37,322 corpus weight
- carambola
carambola
37,317 corpus weight
- carmim
carmim
37,315 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “breca” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɾɛ.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “breca” em português
Rare enough to double-check
breca is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,662 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɾɛ.kɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
breca doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 breca, spelled B-R-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1contração espasmódica e dolorosa do tecido muscular
- 2cãibra
- 3peixe das costas de Portugal
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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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