bilhar
Portuguese, noun/biˈʎaʁ/
bilhar is spelled B-I-L-H-A-R (6 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,592nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bilhar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “billiards (game which has similarities to pool and snooker)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “jogo que se pratica impulsionando com um taco bolas, de marfim ou material semelhante, sobre uma mesa…”.
What does bilhar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebilliards (game which has similarities to pool and snooker)
- 2
masculinebilliards, cue sport (any of various games played on a tabletop with balls and cues)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jogo que se pratica impulsionando com um taco bolas, de marfim ou material semelhante, sobre uma mesa retangular normalmente forrada de pano geralmente verde 2. a mesa onde se joga o bilhar 3. o local onde se joga
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 bilhar
- bilhares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bilhar?
- Brazil /biˈʎaʁ/
- Brazil [biˈʎah]
- /biˈʎaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bilhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bilhar in Portuguese?
bilhar appears 1.8 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).