brick
The verdict
“brick” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,077
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de tijolo(s)
Corpus desk
Index PT-brick · brick · Portuguese
brick · rank #32,077 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,077
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bucha
Nearest frequency peer: bucha (+3 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 “brick”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bailarino
bailarino
67,938 corpus weight
- bombear
bombear
67,928 corpus weight
- brick
brick
67,924 corpus weight
- bucha
bucha
67,921 corpus weight
- cabeleira
cabeleira
67,917 corpus weight
- carbon
carbon
67,910 corpus weight
What this shows “brick” 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 | brick |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “brick”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around brick, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,077 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "de tijolo(s)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for brick, with forms such as "bbrick", "birck", and "brcik". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "brio", "brisa", "bring", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 brick, spelled B-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1de tijolo(s)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is a brick house.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrick
- birck
- brcik
- bricck
- brickk
- brikc
- brrick
- rbick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brick - 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 "brick", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).