obrigado
/ɔ.bɾi.ˈɡa.du/
The verdict
“obrigado” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #621 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #621
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - forçado, coagido por lei, norma, necessidade ou uso; obrigatório, inevitável
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obrigado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɔ.bɾi.ˈɡa.du/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “obrigado” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for obrigado is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.bɾi.ˈɡa.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #621 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for obrigado, with forms such as "borigado", "obbrigado", and "obirgado". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "obrigar", "obrigada", "obrigação", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is obrigado, spelled O-B-R-I-G-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1forçado, coagido por lei, norma, necessidade ou uso; obrigatório, inevitável
- 2agradecido, grato, que fica em dívida, que assume obrigação
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: borigado,obbrigado,obirgado,obrgiado,obriagdo,obrigaddo,obrigaod,obrigdao,obriggado,obrrigado,orbigado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obrigado - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “obrigado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is O-B-R-I-G-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɔ.bɾi.ˈɡa.du/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “obrigar” - see the side-by-side comparison. obrigado vs obrigar
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
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.