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backhand

Portuguese, noun

backhand is spelled B-A-C-K-H-A-N-D (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 90,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Backhand is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “backhand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does backhand mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebackhand

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of backhand

  • backhands plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is backhand in Portuguese?

backhand appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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