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beleléu

Portuguese, noun/be.leˈlɛw/

beleléu is spelled B-E-L-E-L-É-U (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 100,600th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beleléu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “used in the phrase ir para o beleléu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lugar indeterminado, usado na expressão ir para o beleléu”.

What does beleléu mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineslangused in the phrase ir para o beleléu

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. lugar indeterminado, usado na expressão ir para o beleléu 2. morte

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.

How do you pronounce beleléu?

  • Brazil /be.leˈlɛw/
  • Brazil [be.leˈlɛʊ̯]
  • Portugal /bɨ.lɨˈlɛw/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is beleléu in Portuguese?

beleléu appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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