Zimbabué
/zĩ.bɐ.bʊ.ˈɛ/, /zĩ.bɐ.ˈbwɛ/
The verdict
“Zimbabué” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,889 among 42 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,889
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - país do sul da África que faz fronteira com a Zâmbia, Moçambique, África do Sul e Botswana
Corpus desk
Index PT-zimbabue · Zimbabué · Portuguese
Zimbabué · rank #55,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,889
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH úrico
Nearest frequency peer: úrico (+3 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 “Zimbabué”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- umbro
umbro
44,133 corpus weight
- vândalo
vândalo
44,121 corpus weight
- Zimbabué
Zimbabué
44,112 corpus weight
- úrico
úrico
44,109 corpus weight
- aculturação
aculturação
44,099 corpus weight
- aerodinâmico
aerodinâmico
44,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Zimbabué” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zimbabué |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /zĩ.bɐ.bʊ.ˈɛ/, /zĩ.bɐ.ˈbwɛ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Zimbabué” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Zimbabué is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,889 among 42 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /zĩ.bɐ.bʊ.ˈɛ/, /zĩ.bɐ.ˈbwɛ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "país do sul da África que faz fronteira com a Zâmbia, Moçambique, África do Sul e Botswana".
No misspelling variants are generated for Zimbabué in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is Zimbabué, spelled Z-I-M-B-A-B-U-É.
Definition
- 1país do sul da África que faz fronteira com a Zâmbia, Moçambique, África do Sul e Botswana
This word in other languages
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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