basquete
Portuguese, noun
basquete is spelled B-A-S-Q-U-E-T-E (8 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,721st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Basquete is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “basketball (the sport)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, básquete is a different word: “basketball (the sport)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desporto coletivo jogado com bola em quadras fechadas, onde o objetivo é jogar a bola dentro de aros…”.
What does basquete mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebasketball (the sport)
noun
- 1
masculinebasketball (the sport)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. desporto coletivo jogado com bola em quadras fechadas, onde o objetivo é jogar a bola dentro de aros pendurados a 3,05 metros do chão
noun: 1. vide basquetebol
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 basquete
- básquete alternative Portugal
- basquete alternative Brazil
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to basquete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is basquete in Portuguese?
basquete appears 14 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).