bando
noun
bando is a noun meaning “A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-N-D-O, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bando is bandos.
What does bando mean?
noun
- 1
A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
- 2
The curve-ended stick used in this game.
- 3
A drug lair, a trap house.
- 4
A traditional Burmese martial art.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of bando
- bandos plural
- bandoe
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bando?
Bando appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does bando come from?
Compare bandy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).