lobotomia
/lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/
The verdict
“lobotomia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,916 among 1,251 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,916
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,251
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - intervenção cirúrgica no cérebro em que são seccionadas as vias que ligam os lobos frontais ao tálamo e outras vias frontais associadas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lobotomia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lobotomia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lobotomia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,916 among 1,251 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "intervenção cirúrgica no cérebro em que são seccionadas as vias que ligam os lobos frontais ao tálamo e outras vias frontais associadas".
Zero misspellings are on record for lobotomia in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct Portuguese form is lobotomia, spelled L-O-B-O-T-O-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1intervenção cirúrgica no cérebro em que são seccionadas as vias que ligam os lobos frontais ao tálamo e outras vias frontais associadas
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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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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-O-B-O-T-O-M-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.