baloiço
Portuguese, noun
baloiço is spelled B-A-L-O-I-Ç-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,841st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baloiço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of balouço” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of baloiçar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “assento oscilante pendurado por duas cordas ou correntes nos seus laterais para assim pendular”.
What does baloiço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of balouço
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of baloiçar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. assento oscilante pendurado por duas cordas ou correntes nos seus laterais para assim pendular 2. movimento de balanço
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 baloiço
- baloiços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to baloiço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baloiço in Portuguese?
baloiço appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).