balastro
Portuguese, noun/baˈlas.tɾu/
balastro is spelled B-A-L-A-S-T-R-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese, the 191,310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balastro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ballast (material laid to form a bed for a road)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mistura de areia e terra, com que se cobrem as travessas, em que assentam os carris das vias férreas”.
What does balastro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineballast (material laid to form a bed for a road)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mistura de areia e terra, com que se cobrem as travessas, em que assentam os carris das vias férreas 2. lastro, na construção de estradas
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 balastro
- balastros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balastro?
- Brazil /baˈlas.tɾu/
- /baˈlaʃ.tɾu/
- Portugal /bɐˈlaʃ.tɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to balastro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balastro in Portuguese?
balastro appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).