banal
Portuguese, adjective/baˈnaw/
banal is spelled B-A-N-A-L (5 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,810th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Banal is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “banal (common)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “relativo a bane, a trívia, ou a vulgo”.
What does banal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinebanal (common)
- 2
femininemasculinehackneyed (repeated too often)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo a bane, a trívia, ou a vulgo
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 banal
- banais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce banal?
- Brazil /baˈnaw/
- Brazil [baˈnaʊ̯]
- Portugal /bɐˈnal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to banal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is banal in Portuguese?
banal appears 2.2 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).