bacon
Portuguese, noun/ˈbej.kõ/
bacon is spelled B-A-C-O-N (5 letters) and appears 9.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,612th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bacon is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “panceta (toucinho defumado)”.
What does bacon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. panceta (toucinho defumado)
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 bacon
- bacons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bacon?
- Brazil /ˈbej.kõ/
- Brazil [ˈbeɪ̯.kõ]
- Portugal /ˈbɐj.kɔn/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bacon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bacon in Portuguese?
bacon appears 9.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).