brigão
The verdict
“brigão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,968 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,968
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diz-se daquele que é dado a briga
Corpus desk
Index PT-brigao · brigão · Portuguese
brigão · rank #76,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,968
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH borralho
Nearest frequency peer: borralho (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “brigão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- barrica
barrica
23,059 corpus weight
- berreiro
berreiro
23,049 corpus weight
- borralho
borralho
23,036 corpus weight
- brigão
brigão
23,033 corpus weight
- bundona
bundona
23,028 corpus weight
- butte
butte
23,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “brigão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brigão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “brigão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
brigão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,968 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "diz-se daquele que é dado a briga".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brigão in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is brigão, spelled B-R-I-G-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1diz-se daquele que é dado a briga
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brigão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Volvo, Renault e Volks, que escolheram a Grande Curitiba para escapar do sindicalismo brigão, hoje negociam com trabalhadores sob pressão
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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