sobrevoar
Portuguese, verb/ˌso.bɾe.voˈa(ʁ)/
sobrevoar is spelled S-O-B-R-E-V-O-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 37,239th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sobrevoar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fly over; to overfly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sobrevoar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fly over; to overfly
O avião está a sobrevoar os Açores.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sobrevoar
- sobrevoo first-person present singular
- sobrevoei first-person preterite singular
- sobrevoado participle past
- sobrevoares infinitive second-person singular
- sobrevoarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sobrevoardes infinitive plural second-person
- sobrevoarem infinitive plural third-person
- sobrevoando gerund
- sobrevoados masculine participle past
- sobrevoada feminine participle past
- sobrevoadas feminine participle past
- sobrevôo Brazil first-person indicative
- sobrevoas indicative present second-person
- sobrevoa indicative present singular
- sobrevoamos first-person indicative plural
- sobrevoais indicative plural present
- sobrevoam indicative plural present
- sobrevoava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sobrevoar?
- Brazil /ˌso.bɾe.voˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ˌso.bɾe.voˈa(h)]
- Brazil /so.bɾe.voˈa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sobrevoar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sobrevoar in Portuguese?
sobrevoar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).