baixio
Portuguese, noun/bajˈʃi.u/
baixio is spelled B-A-I-X-I-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 78,593rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baixio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sandbank, shoal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “baixo, lugar do fundo do mar, de pedra, de areia, no que não há calado suficiente para o passo das…”.
What does baixio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesandbank, shoal
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Ceará
noun: 1. baixo, lugar do fundo do mar, de pedra, de areia, no que não há calado suficiente para o passo das embarcações. 2. banco de areia
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 baixio
- baixios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baixio?
- Brazil /bajˈʃi.u/
- Brazil [baɪ̯ˈʃi.u]
- Brazil /bajˈʃiw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is baixio in Portuguese?
baixio appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).