zilhão
The verdict
“zilhão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,454 among 42 “Z” headwords), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,454
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grande quantidade, grande número
Corpus desk
Index PT-zilhao · zilhão · Portuguese
zilhão · rank #83,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,454
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH abada
Nearest frequency peer: abada (+12 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 “zilhão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vigie
vigie
16,571 corpus weight
- véi
véi
16,566 corpus weight
- zilhão
zilhão
16,547 corpus weight
- abada
abada
16,535 corpus weight
- abjeto
abjeto
16,534 corpus weight
- adulação
adulação
16,521 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “zilhão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zilhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “zilhão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
zilhão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,454 among 42 “Z” headwords, classed as anumeral. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "grande quantidade, grande número".
No generated misspelling entries exist for zilhão 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 its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is zilhão, spelled Z-I-L-H-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1grande quantidade, grande número
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zilhão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Com algum choro e o calor de um zilhão de velas, os brasileiros vão saindo na horizontal para a boca do forno.
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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