balado
Portuguese, noun/baˈla.du/
balado is spelled B-A-L-A-D-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese, the 176,436th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of balido” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of balar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “som oral emitido por ovelhas e carneiros”.
What does balado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of balido
verb
- 1
past participle of balar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. som oral emitido por ovelhas e carneiros
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 balado
- balados plural
- balada feminine
- baladas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balado?
- Brazil /baˈla.du/
- Portugal /bɐˈla.du/
- Portugal [bɐˈla.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is balado in Portuguese?
balado appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).