inábil
/i.ˈna.biɫ/
The verdict
“inábil” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,893 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,893
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que não possui habilidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-inabil · inábil · Portuguese
inábil · rank #94,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,893
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH joelheira
Nearest frequency peer: joelheira (+20 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 “inábil”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- gust
gust
5,153 corpus weight
- inábil
inábil
5,108 corpus weight
- joelheira
joelheira
5,088 corpus weight
- Kauã
Kauã
5,076 corpus weight
- kien
kien
5,071 corpus weight
- kier
kier
5,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “inábil” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inábil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /i.ˈna.biɫ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “inábil” em português
Rare enough to double-check
inábil is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,893 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /i.ˈna.biɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for inábil, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is inábil, spelled I-N-Á-B-I-L.
Definition
- 1que não possui habilidade
- 2que não tem capacidade legal
- 3incapaz; incompetente
Antonyms
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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