sabugueiro
/sɜbuˈgɜiru/
The verdict
“sabugueiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,465 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,465
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - arbusto que pode chegar a ser árvore, da espécie Sambucus nigra, de flores brancas em umbela e frutos vermelhos, quase negros quando maduros, a sua rama tem um miolo esponjoso
Corpus desk
Index PT-sabugueiro · sabugueiro · Portuguese
sabugueiro · rank #62,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,465
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH rúcula
Nearest frequency peer: rúcula (-4 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 “sabugueiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rococó
rococó
37,554 corpus weight
- rúcula
rúcula
37,540 corpus weight
- sabugueiro
sabugueiro
37,536 corpus weight
- Saturnino
Saturnino
37,532 corpus weight
- sublinhado
sublinhado
37,504 corpus weight
- submergir
submergir
37,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sabugueiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sabugueiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɜbuˈgɜiru/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sabugueiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sabugueiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,465 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɜbuˈgɜiru/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "arbusto que pode chegar a ser árvore, da espécie Sambucus nigra, de flores brancas em umbela e frutos vermelhos, quase negros quando maduros, a sua rama tem um miolo esponjoso".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sabugueiro, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is sabugueiro, spelled S-A-B-U-G-U-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1arbusto que pode chegar a ser árvore, da espécie Sambucus nigra, de flores brancas em umbela e frutos vermelhos, quase negros quando maduros, a sua rama tem um miolo esponjoso
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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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