barbante
Portuguese, noun/baʁˈbɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
barbante is spelled B-A-R-B-A-N-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,725th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barbante is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “twine (string)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fio macio e flexível, com espessura de alguns milímetros, feito de fibras de algodão trançadas e enroladas”.
What does barbante mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetwine (string)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fio macio e flexível, com espessura de alguns milímetros, feito de fibras de algodão trançadas e enroladas
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 barbante
- barbantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce barbante?
- Brazil /baʁˈbɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [baɦˈbɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
- /baɾˈbɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to barbante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is barbante in Portuguese?
barbante appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).