bruma
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
- barítono
barítono
47,418 corpus weight
- battery
battery
47,417 corpus weight
- bruma
bruma
47,402 corpus weight
- Butter
Butter
47,395 corpus weight
- cambojano
cambojano
47,393 corpus weight
- camundongo
camundongo
47,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bruma” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bruma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bruma” em português
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
- 1nevoeiro, cerração
- 2cerração pouco densa, em especial no mar
- 3névoa seca, tipo de turvação atmosférica, causada por poluentes
- 4não nitidez, obscuro, não clareza, obscuridade
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bruma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A história perde-se na bruma do esquecimento.
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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