lobotomia
/lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/
The verdict
“lobotomia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,916 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,916
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - intervenção cirúrgica no cérebro em que são seccionadas as vias que ligam os lobos frontais ao tálamo e outras vias frontais associadas
Corpus desk
Index PT-lobotomia · lobotomia · Portuguese
lobotomia · rank #64,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,916
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lubrificar
Nearest frequency peer: lubrificar (+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 “lobotomia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lobotomia
lobotomia
35,085 corpus weight
- lubrificar
lubrificar
35,084 corpus weight
- madrigal
madrigal
35,079 corpus weight
- manauara
manauara
35,076 corpus weight
- maranata
maranata
35,072 corpus weight
- maremoto
maremoto
35,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lobotomia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lobotomia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lobotomia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,916 among 581 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lobotomia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faz 75 anos que a primeira lobotomia foi feita nos Estados Unidos.
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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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