desobediente

/dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ/

//dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ// adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “desobediente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for desobediente
PropertyValue
Headworddesobediente
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
IPA/dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ/
Letters12
Frequency rank#57,865
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “desobediente” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).desobedientecai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “desnorteado” (#57,864), “dico” (#57,875), “deflagração” (#57,853). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “desobediente” fica em #57,865. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    que desobedece ou costuma desobedecer

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how desobediente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O vencedor da disputa interna foi Felipe Calderón, "filho desobediente" que Fox desdenhara na Câmara e no gabinete.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "desobediente"?
"desobediente" is spelled D-E-S-O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is /dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ/.
What does "desobediente" mean?
As an adjective, "desobediente" means: que desobedece ou costuma desobedecer
How do you pronounce "desobediente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "desobediente" is /dɨ.zɔ.bɨ.ˈdjẽ.tɨ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "desobediente", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list