óbvio
Portuguese, noun
óbvio is spelled Ó-B-V-I-O (5 letters) and appears 24 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,612th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Óbvio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “something that is obvious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, obvio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of obviar”.
What does óbvio mean in English?
adjective
- 1
obvious
noun
- 1
masculinesomething that is obvious
Às vezes é preciso dizer o óbvio.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of obviar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. fácil de entender, intuitivo, lógico, evidente:
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo obviar
noun: 1. óbvio
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of óbvio
- óbvia feminine
- óbvios masculine plural
- óbvias feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to óbvio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is óbvio in Portuguese?
óbvio appears 24 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).