sebe
/ˈsɛ.bɨ/
The verdict
“sebe” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,757 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,757
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vedação feita de ramos ou varas entrelaçadas
Corpus desk
Index PT-sebe · sebe · Portuguese
sebe · rank #67,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,757
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH saki
Nearest frequency peer: saki (-8 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 “sebe”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rubim
rubim
32,255 corpus weight
- sacrário
sacrário
32,254 corpus weight
- saki
saki
32,252 corpus weight
- sebe
sebe
32,244 corpus weight
- siamês
siamês
32,233 corpus weight
- sink
sink
32,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sebe” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sebe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛ.bɨ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sebe” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sebe is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,757 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɛ.bɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vedação feita de ramos ou varas entrelaçadas".
Zero misspellings are on record for sebe in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is sebe, spelled S-E-B-E.
Definition
- 1vedação feita de ramos ou varas entrelaçadas
This word in other languages
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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