sabugueiro
/sɜbuˈgɜiru/
The verdict
“sabugueiro” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #62,465 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,465
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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
| 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) |
Where “sabugueiro” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sabugueiro is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɜbuˈgɜiru/. Corpus data places it at rank #62,465 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “sabugueiro”
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-B-U-G-U-E-I-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɜbuˈgɜiru/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.