feijoada
/feɪʒˈwɑːdə/noun
feijoada is a noun meaning “A stew of beans with beef and pork, considered the national dish of Brazil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-I-J-O-A-D-A, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feijoada is feijoadas.
What does feijoada mean?
noun
- 1
A stew of beans with beef and pork, considered the national dish of Brazil.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feijoada?
- /feɪʒˈwɑːdə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of feijoada
- feijoadas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feijoada?
Feijoada appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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 feijoada come from?
Borrowed from Portuguese feijoada, from feijão (“bean”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).