beca
Portuguese, noun
beca is spelled B-E-C-A (4 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,500th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “gown (official robe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, beça is a different word: “only used in à beça”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “túnica escura usada por magistrados e formandos”.
What does beca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegown (official robe)
- 2
Portugalfeminineinformala bit (small quantity)
noun
- 1
feminineonly used in à beça
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. túnica escura usada por magistrados e formandos
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 beca
- becas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beca in Portuguese?
beca appears 1.0 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).