obter
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,442
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
obter is aPortugueseverb. It means: alcançar o que se desejava ou pedia Pronounced /ɔ.bˈteɾ/. It ranks #1,442 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with over and ontem.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obter |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɔ.bˈteɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for obter is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.bˈteɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,442 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for obter, with forms such as "boter", "obbter", and "obetr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "over", "ontem", "other", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is obter, spelled O-B-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1alcançar o que se desejava ou pedia
- 2conseguir
- 3adquirir
- 4levar a cabo
- 5lograr
- 6ganhar
- 7granjear
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boter,obbter,obetr,obterr,obtre,obtter,otber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obter
Misspelling Variants of "obter"
Frequency rank: #1,442 in Portuguese
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