beribéri
Portuguese, noun/be.ɾiˈbɛ.ɾi/
beribéri is spelled B-E-R-I-B-É-R-I (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 120,815th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beribéri is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “beriberi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “doença tropical provocada pela falta da vitamina B”.
What does beribéri mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineberiberi
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. doença tropical provocada pela falta da vitamina B
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 beribéri
- beribéris plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beribéri?
- Brazil /be.ɾiˈbɛ.ɾi/
- Portugal /bɛ.ɾiˈbɛ.ɾi/
- Portugal [bɛ.ɾiˈβɛ.ɾi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beribéri
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beribéri in Portuguese?
beribéri appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).