bóio

Portuguese, verb

bóio is spelled B-Ó-I-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese, the 233,859th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bóio is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of boio; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, boio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of boiar”.