balanço
Portuguese, noun
balanço is spelled B-A-L-A-N-Ç-O (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,991st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balanço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “swing (hanging seat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of balançar. Without its cedilla, balanco is a different word: “animated oat (Avena sterilis, a species of grass weed)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “movimento oscilatório”.
What does balanço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineswing (hanging seat)
Crianças gostam de brincar no balanço do parque.
- 2
masculinesway (swaying motion)
O balanço do barco é enjoativo.
- 3
informalmasculinerhythm (variation of strong and weak elements of sounds)
O balanço dessa música é bom para dançar.
- 4
masculinea scrupulous examination
Fizeram um balanço da economia.
- 5
masculinebalance (list accounting for debits and credits)
- 6
masculineequilibrium (condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of balançar
noun
- 1
masculineanimated oat (Avena sterilis, a species of grass weed)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. movimento oscilatório 2. solavanco 3. verificação da receita e despesa 4. brinquedo normalmente encontrado em parques
noun: 1. aveia-louca, (Avena fatua)
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 balanço
- balanços plural
- balancinho diminutive
- balançozinho diminutive
- balanção augmentative
- balancos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to balanço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balanço in Portuguese?
balanço appears 11 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).