rubor
/Ru.ˈboɾ/
The verdict
“rubor” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,445 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,445
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - característica do que é rubro
Corpus desk
Index PT-rubor · rubor · Portuguese
rubor · rank #68,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,445
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH recobrar
Nearest frequency peer: recobrar (-31 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 “rubor”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- póquer
póquer
31,603 corpus weight
- recobrar
recobrar
31,587 corpus weight
- rubor
rubor
31,556 corpus weight
- socket
socket
31,525 corpus weight
- solidamente
solidamente
31,524 corpus weight
- subdesenvol…
subdesenvolvido
31,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “rubor” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Ru.ˈboɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “rubor” em português
Rare enough to double-check
rubor is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,445 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /Ru.ˈboɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rubor in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is rubor, spelled R-U-B-O-R.
Definition
- 1característica do que é rubro
- 2vermelhidão
- 3cor vermelha
- 4enrubescimento
- 5vergonha, pudor
- 6modéstia
- 7timidez
Synonyms
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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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