badagaio
Portuguese, noun/ba.daˈɡaj.u/
badagaio is spelled B-A-D-A-G-A-I-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese, the 266,412th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Badagaio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a faint, fainting (momentary loss of consciousness)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does badagaio mean in English?
noun
- 1
Portugalcolloquialmasculinea faint, fainting (momentary loss of consciousness)
- 2
Portugalcolloquialmasculinea fit (seizure)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of badagaio
- badagaios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce badagaio?
- Brazil /ba.daˈɡaj.u/
- Brazil [ba.daˈɡaɪ̯.u]
- Portugal /bɐ.dɐˈɡaj.u/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is badagaio in Portuguese?
badagaio appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).