breque
/ˈbɾɛ.ki/
The verdict
“breque” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,350 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,350
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mecanismo utilizado para diminuir a velocidade de um veículo
Corpus desk
Index PT-breque · breque · Portuguese
breque · rank #75,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,350
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH breed
Nearest frequency peer: breed (-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 “breque”
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 “breque” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breque |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɾɛ.ki/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “breque” em português
Rare enough to double-check
breque is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,350 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɾɛ.ki/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for breque in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is breque, spelled B-R-E-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1mecanismo utilizado para diminuir a velocidade de um veículo
- 2interrupção
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how breque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ela precisa dar um breque nessa situação.
Synonyms
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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