sobrevoo

noun

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The verdict

“sobrevoo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,324 among 2,603 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,324
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,603
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - voo por cima

Key facts for sobrevoo
PropertyValue
Headwordsobrevoo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#78,324
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sobrevoo” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). sobrevoo lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sobrevoo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,324 among 2,603 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "voo por cima".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sobrevoo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is sobrevoo, spelled S-O-B-R-E-V-O-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    voo por cima

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sobrevoo"?
"sobrevoo" is spelled S-O-B-R-E-V-O-O.
What does "sobrevoo" mean?
As a noun, "sobrevoo" means: voo por cima
What language does "sobrevoo" come from?
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Using “sobrevoo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-O-B-R-E-V-O-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list