gigabit

noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gigabit
PropertyValue
Headwordgigabit
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#80,445
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “gigabit” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).gigabitcai 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: “furniture” (#80,435), “fracionamento” (#80,424), “flutuador” (#80,417). Entre 521 lemas com “G”, “gigabit” fica em #80,445. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 base 2)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. As redes giga-ethernet transmitem dados em uma taxa de 10 gigabits por segundo.

Synonyms

gigabite

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

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What does "gigabit" mean?
As a noun, "gigabit" means: 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...
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list