bagaço
Portuguese, noun/baˈɡa.su/
bagaço is spelled B-A-G-A-Ç-O (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bagaço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o que sobra dos frutos, ervas ou de qualquer outro vegetal depois de se lhe tirar o suco”.
What does bagaço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted)
- 2
masculinepomace (pulp that remains after a fruit has been pressed to extract the juice)
- 3
masculinemarc (a type of brandy produced from grape residues)
- 4
informalmasculinea spent, ragged or otherwise very tired person
- 5
masculinesomething useless
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o que sobra dos frutos, ervas ou de qualquer outro vegetal depois de se lhe tirar o suco 2. bagaceira, aguardente do bagaço da uva 3. parte fibrosa da cana-de-açúcar depois de espremida 4. coisa inútil
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 bagaço
- bagaços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bagaço?
- Brazil /baˈɡa.su/
- Portugal /bɐˈɡa.su/
- Portugal [bɐˈɣa.su]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bagaço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bagaço in Portuguese?
bagaço appears 1.1 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).