sabo
/ˈsa.bo/
The verdict
“sabo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,290 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,290
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sábado
Corpus desk
Index PT-sabo · sabo · Portuguese
sabo · rank #78,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,290
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH retalhar
Nearest frequency peer: retalhar (-16 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 “sabo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- respeitante
respeitante
21,731 corpus weight
- retalhar
retalhar
21,727 corpus weight
- sabo
sabo
21,711 corpus weight
- seringueira
seringueira
21,695 corpus weight
- shiu
shiu
21,691 corpus weight
- sobrevoo
sobrevoo
21,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sabo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sabo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsa.bo/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sabo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sabo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,290 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsa.bo/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sábado".
sabo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sabo, spelled S-A-B-O.
Definition
- 1sábado
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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