gigabit
The verdict
“gigabit” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,445 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,445
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - múltiplo do bit (Gb); pode representar 1.000.000.000 bits (10⁹ na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades (SI) ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.073.741.824 bits (2³⁰ na b...
Corpus desk
Index PT-gigabit · gigabit · Portuguese
gigabit · rank #80,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,445
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH furniture
Nearest frequency peer: furniture (-10 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 “gigabit”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- extraviado
extraviado
19,604 corpus weight
- flutuador
flutuador
19,584 corpus weight
- fracionamen…
fracionamento
19,577 corpus weight
- furniture
furniture
19,566 corpus weight
- gigabit
gigabit
19,556 corpus weight
- hoe
hoe
19,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gigabit” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gigabit |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gigabit” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gigabit is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,445 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "múltiplo do bit (Gb); pode representar 1.000.000.000 bits (10⁹ na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades (SI) ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.073.741.824 bits (2³⁰ na b...".
No misspelling variants are generated for gigabit in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gigabit, spelled G-I-G-A-B-I-T.
Definition
- 1múltiplo do bit (Gb); pode representar 1.000.000.000 bits (10⁹ na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades (SI) ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.073.741.824 bits (2³⁰ na base 2)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gigabit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As redes giga-ethernet transmitem dados em uma taxa de 10 gigabits por segundo.
Synonyms
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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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