bobe
Portuguese, noun/ˈbɔ.bi/
bobe is spelled B-O-B-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese, the 195,116th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bobe is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hair roller (a small tube that is rolled into a person’s hair)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “objeto que tem formato tubular curto que segura e modela onduladamente cabelo que nele se enrola na…”.
What does bobe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehair roller (a small tube that is rolled into a person’s hair)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. objeto que tem formato tubular curto que segura e modela onduladamente cabelo que nele se enrola na superfície externa
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 bobe
- bobes plural
- bob alternative
- bóbi alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bobe?
- Brazil /ˈbɔ.bi/
- Portugal /ˈbɔ.bɨ/
- Portugal [ˈbɔ.βɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bobe in Portuguese?
bobe appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).