grigio
/ˈgriːd͡ʒo/
The verdict
“grigio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,584 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,584
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cinzento, cinza
Corpus desk
Index PT-grigio · grigio · Portuguese
grigio · rank #75,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,584
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gigantismo
Nearest frequency peer: gigantismo (-8 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 “grigio”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- folder
folder
24,440 corpus weight
- garo
garo
24,432 corpus weight
- gigantismo
gigantismo
24,425 corpus weight
- grigio
grigio
24,417 corpus weight
- Hawaiian
Hawaiian
24,405 corpus weight
- hexágono
hexágono
24,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “grigio” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grigio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈgriːd͡ʒo/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “grigio” em português
Rare enough to double-check
grigio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,584 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈgriːd͡ʒo/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cinzento, cinza".
No misspelling variants are generated for grigio in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is grigio, spelled G-R-I-G-I-O.
Definition
- 1cinzento, cinza
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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