lobotomia

/lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/

//lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ// noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for lobotomia
PropertyValue
Headwordlobotomia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/
Letters9
Frequency rank#64,916
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “lobotomia” em português

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

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “lubrificar” (#64,917), “madrigal” (#64,922), “manauara” (#64,925). Entre 581 lemas com “L”, “lobotomia” fica em #64,916. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    intervenção cirúrgica no cérebro em que são seccionadas as vias que ligam os lobos frontais ao tálamo e outras vias frontais associadas

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Faz 75 anos que a primeira lobotomia foi feita nos Estados Unidos.

Synonyms

leucotomia

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 "lobotomia"?
"lobotomia" is spelled L-O-B-O-T-O-M-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/.
What does "lobotomia" mean?
As a noun, "lobotomia" means: intervenção cirúrgica no cérebro em que são seccionadas as vias que ligam os lobos frontais ao tálamo e outras vias frontais associadas
How do you pronounce "lobotomia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lobotomia" is /lɔ.bu.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/. 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 "lobotomia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list