terabyte
The verdict
“terabyte” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - múltiplo do byte cujo símbolo é TB; pode representar 1.000.000.000.000 de bytes (10¹² na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.099.511....
Corpus desk
Index PT-terabyte · terabyte · Portuguese
terabyte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terabyte |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “terabyte” em português
Rare enough to double-check
terabyte is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "múltiplo do byte cujo símbolo é TB; pode representar 1.000.000.000.000 de bytes (10¹² na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.099.511....".
terabyte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 terabyte, spelled T-E-R-A-B-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1múltiplo do byte cujo símbolo é TB; pode representar 1.000.000.000.000 de bytes (10¹² na base 10) no sistema internacional de unidades ou, como é mais comumente utilizado em informática, 1.099.511.627.776 bytes (2⁴⁰ na base 2)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terabyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O coordenador do DES no Brasil, Luiz Nicolaci da Costa, do Observatório Nacional, afirma que 0,5 a 1 terabyte de dados será gerado por noite.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.