cobrir

verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,710

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

cobrir is aPortugueseverb. It means: pôr cobertura em It ranks #4,710 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cobro and correr.

Key facts for cobrir
PropertyValue
Headwordcobrir
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,710
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cobrir in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cobrir is 6 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #4,710 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cobrir, with forms such as "cborir", "ccobrir", and "cobbrir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cobro", "correr", "coibir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is cobrir, spelled C-O-B-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    pôr cobertura em
  2. 2
    proporcionar proteção
  3. 3
    esconder, desviar da vista
  4. 4
    ocupar um espaço de modo a que este não se torne visível
  5. 5
    fechar uma abertura
  6. 6
    pôr roupas ou vestuário sobre o corpo
  7. 7
    fazer ficar ou ficar cheio; fazer, ter, adquirir grandes quantidades
  8. 8
    servir de abrigo, proteção
  9. 9
    ter um som a uma intensidade superior aos restantes
  10. 10
    ter um valor suficiente para pagar algo
  11. 11
    oferecer um montante, uma soma, ou um valor superior ao outro
  12. 12
    garantir o pagamento em dinheiro de determinada despesa ou prejuízo
  13. 13
    garantir os direitos
  14. 14
    fazer um relato de um certo acontecimento, através de um meio de comunicação
  15. 15
    abranger determinada área do conhecimento, espaço ou território
  16. 16
    percorrer determinada distância
  17. 17
    fazer sentir ou sentir muito intensamente determinado sentimento, emoção ou sensação
  18. 18
    ter, um macho, relações sexuais com uma fêmea
  19. 19
    pôr terra sobre a raiz de uma planta

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cborir,ccobrir,cobbrir,cobirr,cobrirr,cobrri,cobrrir,corbir,ocbrir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cobrir

Misspelling Variants of "cobrir"

cborir6ccobrir7cobbrir7cobirr6cobrirr7cobrri6cobrrir7corbir6
Misspelling Variants of "cobrir"

Frequency rank: #4,710 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cobrir"?
"cobrir" is spelled C-O-B-R-I-R.
What does "cobrir" mean?
As a verb, "cobrir" means: pôr cobertura em
What words are commonly confused with "cobrir"?
"cobrir" is commonly confused with "cobro", "correr", "coibir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "cobrir" come from?
"cobrir" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.