Brief
The verdict
“Brief” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,218 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,218
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - carta
Corpus desk
Index PT-brief · Brief · Portuguese
Brief · rank #86,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,218
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH cacifo
Nearest frequency peer: cacifo (+11 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 “Brief”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- balsâmico
balsâmico
13,819 corpus weight
- biberão
biberão
13,804 corpus weight
- Brief
Brief
13,783 corpus weight
- cacifo
cacifo
13,772 corpus weight
- chicana
chicana
13,748 corpus weight
- chicha
chicha
13,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Brief” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brief |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Brief” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Brief is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,218 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "carta".
Brief has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Brief, spelled B-R-I-E-F.
Definition
- 1carta
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brief appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich schreibe einen Brief an meinen Vater, der in Frankreich arbeitet.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).