brega
The verdict
“brega” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,001. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,001
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cafona, deselegante, feio, de mau gosto, barango
Corpus desk
Index PT-brega · brega · Portuguese
brega · rank #16,001 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,001
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH blitz
Nearest frequency peer: blitz (-2 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “brega”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- astronomia
astronomia
84,010 corpus weight
- bactéria
bactéria
84,005 corpus weight
- blitz
blitz
84,002 corpus weight
- brega
brega
84,000 corpus weight
- cascavel
cascavel
83,995 corpus weight
- castor
castor
83,994 corpus weight
What this shows “brega” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brega |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “brega”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around brega, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,001 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "cafona, deselegante, feio, de mau gosto, barango".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brega, with forms such as "bbrega", "berga", and "breag". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "breu", "broa", "breve", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 brega, spelled B-R-E-G-A.
Definition
- 1cafona, deselegante, feio, de mau gosto, barango
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brega appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esse rapaz é muito brega.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrega
- berga
- breag
- bregga
- brgea
- brrega
- rbega
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brega - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brega", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).