boa
Portuguese, noun
boa is spelled B-O-A (3 letters) and appears 550 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 168th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “an interesting story, joke or news” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of bom. With an accent, boá is a different word: “boa (scarf)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “jiboia”.
What does boa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininean interesting story, joke or news
interjection
- 1
good one!, well done!, all right! (expresses approval, applause or admiration)
noun
- 1
feminineboa (any snake of the Boa genus)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of bom
noun
- 1
femininemasculineboa (scarf)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jiboia
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 boa
- boas plural
- bõa alternative archaic dialectal
- boua alternative dialectal
- boa! canonical
- boás plural
- boa alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to boa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is boa in Portuguese?
boa appears 550 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).