bruma

noun

The verdict

“bruma” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,599 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,599
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nevoeiro, cerração

Corpus desk

Index PT-bruma · bruma · Portuguese

bruma · rank #52,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,599
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH Butter

Nearest frequency peer: Butter (+7 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 “bruma”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bruma” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bruma
PropertyValue
Headwordbruma
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#52,599
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “bruma” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).brumacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “Butter” (#52,606), “cambojano” (#52,608), “camundongo” (#52,609). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “bruma” fica em #52,599. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bruma is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,599 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bruma, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bruma, spelled B-R-U-M-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    nevoeiro, cerração
  2. 2
    cerração pouco densa, em especial no mar
  3. 3
    névoa seca, tipo de turvação atmosférica, causada por poluentes
  4. 4
    não nitidez, obscuro, não clareza, obscuridade

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how bruma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A história perde-se na bruma do esquecimento.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bruma"?
"bruma" is spelled B-R-U-M-A.
What does "bruma" mean?
As a noun, "bruma" means: nevoeiro, cerração
What language does "bruma" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bruma", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list