boato
Portuguese, noun/boˈa.tu/
boato is spelled B-O-A-T-O (5 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,602nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boato is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “rumor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “notícia que corre publicamente, mas não confirmada”.
What does boato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerumor
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. notícia que corre publicamente, mas não confirmada 2. notícia falsa, infundada, balela 3. rumor, atoarda 4. notícia muito difundida, divulgada
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 boato
- boatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boato?
- Brazil /boˈa.tu/
- Portugal /ˈbwa.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to boato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is boato in Portuguese?
boato appears 5.4 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).