roubo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,725
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
roubo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de subtrair coisa móvel alheia mediante violência ou grave ameaça a pessoa, ou depois de havê-la, por qualquer meio, reduzido à impossibilidade de resistência It ranks #3,725 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with rumo and roxo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roubo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for roubo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,725 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for roubo, with forms such as "orubo", "robuo", and "roubbo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rumo", "roxo", "rubi", 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 roubo, spelled R-O-U-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de subtrair coisa móvel alheia mediante violência ou grave ameaça a pessoa, ou depois de havê-la, por qualquer meio, reduzido à impossibilidade de resistência
- 2aquilo que se rouba
- 3preço abusivamente alto
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orubo,robuo,roubbo,rouob,rroubo,ruobo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for roubo
Misspelling Variants of "roubo"
Frequency rank: #3,725 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Portuguese index: