baleação
Portuguese, noun/ba.li.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
baleação is spelled B-A-L-E-A-Ç-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese, the 144,068th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baleação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “whaling (practice of hunting whales)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does baleação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewhaling (practice of hunting whales)
noun
- 1
femininethe act of shooting someone
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce baleação?
- Brazil /ba.li.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [ba.li.aˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /ba.ljaˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to baleação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baleação in Portuguese?
baleação appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).