arcabouço
Portuguese, noun/aʁ.kaˈbo(w).su/
arcabouço is spelled A-R-C-A-B-O-U-Ç-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arcabouço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “arrangement of support beams of a building” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “variante ortográfica de arcaboiço”.
What does arcabouço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinearrangement of support beams of a building
- 2
masculinea basic physical or conceptual structure
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. variante ortográfica de arcaboiço
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arcabouço
- arcabouços plural
- arcaboiço alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arcabouço?
- Brazil /aʁ.kaˈbo(w).su/
- Brazil [ah.kaˈbo(ʊ̯).su]
- /aɾ.kaˈbo(w).su/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arcabouço in Portuguese?
arcabouço appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).