proibir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,713
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
proibir is aPortugueseverb. It means: ordenar uma pessoa a não fazer algo, a não ter algo, a não entrar em algum lugar, etc Often confused with proibido.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proibir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for proibir is 7 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #11,713 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for proibir, with forms such as "poribir", "pproibir", and "priobir". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "proibido", 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 proibir, spelled P-R-O-I-B-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ordenar uma pessoa a não fazer algo, a não ter algo, a não entrar em algum lugar, etc
- 2criar uma lei contra algo
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: poribir,pproibir,priobir,probiir,proibbir,proibirr,proibri,proiibr,prroibir,rpoibir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for proibir
Misspelling Variants of "proibir"
Frequency rank: #11,713 in Portuguese
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