aber
[ˈaː.bɐ]
The verdict
“aber” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,583 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,583
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mas, porém
Corpus desk
Index PT-aber · aber · Portuguese
aber · rank #64,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,583
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH Zephyr
Nearest frequency peer: Zephyr (-9 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 “aber”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- urtiga
urtiga
35,448 corpus weight
- xenófobo
xenófobo
35,432 corpus weight
- Zephyr
Zephyr
35,427 corpus weight
- aber
aber
35,418 corpus weight
- aliciar
aliciar
35,398 corpus weight
- amarillo
amarillo
35,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aber” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aber |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [ˈaː.bɐ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aber” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aber is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,583 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as aconjunction, transcribed [ˈaː.bɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mas, porém".
No misspelling variants are generated for aber in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is aber, spelled A-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1mas, porém
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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