brique
/bʁik/
The verdict
“brique” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,479 among 2,073 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,479
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,073
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - tijolo (paralelepípedo de barro moldado e cozido)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brique |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bʁik/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brique” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
brique is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,479 among 2,073 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bʁik/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tijolo (paralelepípedo de barro moldado e cozido)".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for brique, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is brique, spelled B-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1tijolo (paralelepípedo de barro moldado e cozido)
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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Using “brique”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.