celibato
/sɨ.li.ˈba.tu/
The verdict
“celibato” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #34,187 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #34,187
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - estado da pessoa que é solteira e que não tem intenção de casar, ou não pode casar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celibato |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɨ.li.ˈba.tu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “celibato” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for celibato is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨ.li.ˈba.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,187 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "estado da pessoa que é solteira e que não tem intenção de casar, ou não pode casar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for celibato, with forms such as "ccelibato", "ceilbato", and "celbiato". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 celibato, spelled C-E-L-I-B-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1estado da pessoa que é solteira e que não tem intenção de casar, ou não pode casar
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccelibato,ceilbato,celbiato,celiabto,celibaot,celibatto,celibbato,celibtao,cellibato,cleibato,eclibato
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of celibato - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “celibato”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-E-L-I-B-A-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɨ.li.ˈba.tu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.