oboé
/ɔ.ˈbwɛ/
The verdict
“oboé” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,326 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,326
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento musical de sopro de palheta dupla da família das madeiras
Corpus desk
Index PT-oboe · oboé · Portuguese
oboé · rank #52,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,326
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH Neusa
Nearest frequency peer: Neusa (-6 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 “oboé”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- neandertal
neandertal
47,684 corpus weight
- negligenciar
negligenciar
47,682 corpus weight
- Neusa
Neusa
47,681 corpus weight
- oboé
oboé
47,675 corpus weight
- olivera
olivera
47,666 corpus weight
- omitido
omitido
47,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “oboé” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oboé |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.ˈbwɛ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “oboé” em português
Rare enough to double-check
oboé is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,326 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɔ.ˈbwɛ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "instrumento musical de sopro de palheta dupla da família das madeiras".
Zero misspellings are on record for oboé in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is oboé, spelled O-B-O-É.
Definition
- 1instrumento musical de sopro de palheta dupla da família das madeiras
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.
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