sobremaneira
/so.bɾe.ma.ˈnej.ɾa/
The verdict
“sobremaneira” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,795 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,795
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Com grande intensidade, em alto grau.
Corpus desk
Index PT-sobremaneira · sobremaneira · Portuguese
sobremaneira · rank #58,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,795
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH simulacro
Nearest frequency peer: simulacro (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “sobremaneira”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rough
rough
41,224 corpus weight
- ruga
ruga
41,222 corpus weight
- sifão
sifão
41,209 corpus weight
- signe
signe
41,208 corpus weight
- simulacro
simulacro
41,207 corpus weight
- sobremaneira
sobremaneira
41,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sobremaneira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobremaneira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /so.bɾe.ma.ˈnej.ɾa/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sobremaneira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sobremaneira is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,795 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /so.bɾe.ma.ˈnej.ɾa/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Com grande intensidade, em alto grau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sobremaneira, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sobremaneira, spelled S-O-B-R-E-M-A-N-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Com grande intensidade, em alto grau.
Synonyms
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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