🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese
frequency dictionary

Around 95 Brazilian Portuguese words and phrases cover half of everything said in ordinary speech, and about 1,919 cover 80%. Coverage climbs steeply at first and then flattens: the whole top 9,573 reaches 89.4%, so the last few thousand entries add far less than the first few hundred.

The ten most common Brazilian Portuguese entries are que (that), o (the), não (no), de (of / from), a (to), é (is), você (you), e (and), eu (I) and um (a / one). Together they account for 21.8% of all running Brazilian Portuguese text in the corpus.

The most common Brazilian Portuguese word is “que”, meaning “that”. It appears 45,903,271 times across the corpus, which is 3.5% of everything said.

The list is built from the Brazilian Portuguese side of the OpenSubtitles corpus — 1,325,310,853 tokens of transcribed dialogue, which reflects spoken language far more closely than a news or encyclopedia corpus. Text is tokenised with Unicode word boundaries, subtitle timing and formatting are stripped, and the 1,349,506 distinct forms found are ranked by raw count. The top 9,573 are kept, each with a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and its cumulative share of running text.

Yes. 1,370 of the 9,573 Brazilian Portuguese entries are multi-word phrases that repeat tightly enough to behave like single vocabulary items — the most common is “acho que” (I think), at rank 88. They are ranked alongside single words rather than in a separate list, because knowing them as units is what fluency looks like.

The 100 most common Brazilian Portuguese entries cover 50.7% of running text by themselves. That is why they are worth learning first: no other 100 items in the language come close.

Yes. All 9,437 translated Brazilian Portuguese entries can be exported as JSON, CSV, TSV, Markdown, or an Anki deck straight from the dictionary page, with no account and no sign-up. The data is prebuilt and served as static files.