brilliant
/ˈbɹɪljənt/
The verdict
“brilliant” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,823 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,823
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - brilhante
Corpus desk
Index PT-brilliant · brilliant · Portuguese
brilliant · rank #89,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,823
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH brada
Nearest frequency peer: brada (-6 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 “brilliant”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bisonte
bisonte
10,198 corpus weight
- bjørn
bjørn
10,196 corpus weight
- bovinocultu…
bovinocultura
10,185 corpus weight
- brada
brada
10,184 corpus weight
- brilliant
brilliant
10,178 corpus weight
- canábis
canábis
10,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “brilliant” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brilliant |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɹɪljənt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “brilliant” em português
Rare enough to double-check
brilliant is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,823 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈbɹɪljənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brilliant, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 brilliant, spelled B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1brilhante
- 2muito inteligente
- 3excelente, magnífico
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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