broulhão
/bɾou.'ʎoŋ/
The verdict
“broulhão” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - feijocas (Conopodium majus)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broulhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɾou.'ʎoŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “broulhão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
broulhão is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɾou.'ʎoŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
broulhão doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is broulhão, spelled B-R-O-U-L-H-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1feijocas (Conopodium majus)
- 2certa ave aquática
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “broulhão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-R-O-U-L-H-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /bɾou.'ʎoŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.