brique
/bʁik/
The verdict
“brique” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,479 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,479
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tijolo (paralelepípedo de barro moldado e cozido)
Corpus desk
Index PT-brique · brique · Portuguese
brique · rank #96,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,479
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bromo
Nearest frequency peer: bromo (+1 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 “brique”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- beim
beim
3,548 corpus weight
- benévolo
benévolo
3,542 corpus weight
- bombacha
bombacha
3,529 corpus weight
- brique
brique
3,522 corpus weight
- bromo
bromo
3,521 corpus weight
- cacofonia
cacofonia
3,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “brique” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “brique” em português
Rare enough to double-check
brique is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,479 among 840 “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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