zilhão
The verdict
“zilhão” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #83,454 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a numeral.
- #83,454
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - grande quantidade, grande número
| 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) |
Where “zilhão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for zilhão is 6 letters long, classified as a numeral. Corpus data places it at rank #83,454 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “zilhão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Z-I-L-H-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.