gigabyte
/ʒi.ɡɐ.ˈbaj.tɨ/
The verdict
“gigabyte” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,002 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,002
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - múltiplo do byte (GB); pode representar 1.000.000.000 bytes (10⁹ na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.073.741.824 bytes (2³⁰ na bas...
Corpus desk
Index PT-gigabyte · gigabyte · Portuguese
gigabyte · rank #78,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,002
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gerontologia
Nearest frequency peer: gerontologia (-1 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 “gigabyte”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- frisson
frisson
22,015 corpus weight
- fumeiro
fumeiro
22,013 corpus weight
- gerontologia
gerontologia
22,000 corpus weight
- gigabyte
gigabyte
21,999 corpus weight
- glamouroso
glamouroso
21,994 corpus weight
- happily
happily
21,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gigabyte” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gigabyte |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒi.ɡɐ.ˈbaj.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gigabyte” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gigabyte is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,002 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʒi.ɡɐ.ˈbaj.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "múltiplo do byte (GB); pode representar 1.000.000.000 bytes (10⁹ na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.073.741.824 bytes (2³⁰ na bas...".
gigabyte has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is gigabyte, spelled G-I-G-A-B-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1múltiplo do byte (GB); pode representar 1.000.000.000 bytes (10⁹ na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.073.741.824 bytes (2³⁰ na base 2)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gigabyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os discos rígidos têm uma capacidade de armazenamento de 250 gigabytes.
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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