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bisonho

Portuguese, adjective/biˈzõ.ɲu/

bisonho is spelled B-I-S-O-N-H-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 93,598th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bisonho is a Portuguese adjective meaning “inexperienced in warfare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inexperiente em coisas da guerra”.

What does bisonho mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    inexperienced in warfare

  2. 2

    weird (having an unusually strange character)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. inexperiente em coisas da guerra 2. principiante 3. acanhado

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 bisonho

  • bisonha feminine
  • bisonhos masculine plural
  • bisonhas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce bisonho?

  • Brazil /biˈzõ.ɲu/
  • Brazil [biˈzõ.j̃u]
  • Portugal /biˈzo.ɲu/

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

English words that translate to bisonho

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is bisonho in Portuguese?

bisonho appears about once in every 9 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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