sober
/ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)/
The verdict
“sober” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,594 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,594
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sóbrio
Corpus desk
Index PT-sober · sober · Portuguese
sober · rank #53,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,594
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH shelter
Nearest frequency peer: shelter (-11 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 “sober”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- seem
seem
46,431 corpus weight
- shelter
shelter
46,418 corpus weight
- sober
sober
46,407 corpus weight
- supletivo
supletivo
46,392 corpus weight
- síncope
síncope
46,389 corpus weight
- tabuada
tabuada
46,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sober” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sober |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sober” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sober is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,594 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sober in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is sober, spelled S-O-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1sóbrio
- 2sério
- 3não colorido nem brilhante
Antonyms
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).