sobrar
/su.ˈbɾaɾ/
The verdict
“sobrar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,849. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,849
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - subsistir como resto, sobra ou remanescente; existir ou estar ainda disponível; conservar-se, ficar, restar, permanecer
Corpus desk
Index PT-sobrar · sobrar · Portuguese
sobrar · rank #19,849 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,849
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sobrado
Nearest frequency peer: sobrado (-1 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “sobrar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sensei
sensei
80,158 corpus weight
- sensibilizar
sensibilizar
80,157 corpus weight
- Sibéria
Sibéria
80,155 corpus weight
- sobrado
sobrado
80,153 corpus weight
- sobrar
sobrar
80,152 corpus weight
- sonoro
sonoro
80,148 corpus weight
What this shows “sobrar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /su.ˈbɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sobrar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sobrar (IPA /su.ˈbɾaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,849 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sobrar, with forms such as "osbrar", "sborar", and "sobarr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "sobre", "sogra", "somar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sobrar, spelled S-O-B-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1subsistir como resto, sobra ou remanescente; existir ou estar ainda disponível; conservar-se, ficar, restar, permanecer
- 2derivar colateralmente como resultado para si de um ato provocado por outrem, penalização, ação negativa
- 3ser inconveniente a causar constrangimento ou incômodo pela simples presença
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sobrar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pra gente ver, por entre os prédios e nós, o que sobrou do céu.
– Mas o que foi? – Você faz coisa errada e sempre sobra pra mim! Eu nem estava aqui e agora vou ter de ficar de castigo!!!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osbrar
- sborar
- sobarr
- sobbrar
- sobrarr
- sobrra
- sobrrar
- sorbar
- ssobrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sobrar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sobrar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).