rosbife
/Roʒ.ˈbi.fɨ/
The verdict
“rosbife” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,929 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,929
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - carne bovina assado de maneira a ficar tostado por fora e rosado por dentro
Corpus desk
Index PT-rosbife · rosbife · Portuguese
rosbife · rank #79,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,929
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH salteado
Nearest frequency peer: salteado (+10 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 “rosbife”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rebobinar
rebobinar
20,107 corpus weight
- resoluto
resoluto
20,086 corpus weight
- rosbife
rosbife
20,072 corpus weight
- salteado
salteado
20,062 corpus weight
- Sheba
Sheba
20,047 corpus weight
- spiro
spiro
20,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rosbife” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosbife |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Roʒ.ˈbi.fɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rosbife” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rosbife is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,929 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /Roʒ.ˈbi.fɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "carne bovina assado de maneira a ficar tostado por fora e rosado por dentro".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rosbife, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is rosbife, spelled R-O-S-B-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1carne bovina assado de maneira a ficar tostado por fora e rosado por dentro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rosbife appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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