brioche
/bɾi.ˈɔ.ʃɨ/
The verdict
“brioche” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,541 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,541
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tipo de pão adocicado
Corpus desk
Index PT-brioche · brioche · Portuguese
brioche · rank #74,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,541
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH brâmane
Nearest frequency peer: brâmane (+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 “brioche”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- baru
baru
25,474 corpus weight
- bimbo
bimbo
25,468 corpus weight
- brioche
brioche
25,460 corpus weight
- brâmane
brâmane
25,457 corpus weight
- cafundó
cafundó
25,451 corpus weight
- cambraia
cambraia
25,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “brioche” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brioche |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɾi.ˈɔ.ʃɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “brioche” em português
Rare enough to double-check
brioche is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,541 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɾi.ˈɔ.ʃɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tipo de pão adocicado".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brioche, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is brioche, spelled B-R-I-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1tipo de pão adocicado
This word in other languages
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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