desobediente
/dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ/
The verdict
“desobediente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,865 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,865
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que desobedece ou costuma desobedecer
Corpus desk
Index PT-desobediente · desobediente · Portuguese
desobediente · rank #57,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,865
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desnorteado
Nearest frequency peer: desnorteado (-1 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 “desobediente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- culminante
culminante
42,156 corpus weight
- deflagração
deflagração
42,148 corpus weight
- desnorteado
desnorteado
42,137 corpus weight
- desobediente
desobediente
42,136 corpus weight
- dico
dico
42,126 corpus weight
- dilatar
dilatar
42,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desobediente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desobediente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desobediente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desobediente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,865 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que desobedece ou costuma desobedecer".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for desobediente, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 desobediente, spelled D-E-S-O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que desobedece ou costuma desobedecer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desobediente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O vencedor da disputa interna foi Felipe Calderón, "filho desobediente" que Fox desdenhara na Câmara e no gabinete.
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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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