breed
/briːd/
The verdict
“breed” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,349 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,349
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - todos os animais ou plantas da mesma espécie ou subespécie
Corpus desk
Index PT-breed · breed · Portuguese
breed · rank #75,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,349
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH breque
Nearest frequency peer: breque (+1 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 “breed”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bind
bind
24,665 corpus weight
- boquiaberto
boquiaberto
24,658 corpus weight
- Brasile
Brasile
24,655 corpus weight
- breed
breed
24,652 corpus weight
- breque
breque
24,651 corpus weight
- cagaço
cagaço
24,639 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “breed” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breed |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /briːd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “breed” em português
Rare enough to double-check
breed is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,349 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /briːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for breed in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is breed, spelled B-R-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1todos os animais ou plantas da mesma espécie ou subespécie
- 2raça ou linhagem
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).