boliche
Portuguese, noun/boˈli.ʃi/
boliche is spelled B-O-L-I-C-H-E (7 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,227th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boliche is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bowling (a game played by rolling a ball down an alley)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequena taberna; baiúca”.
What does boliche mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinebowling (a game played by rolling a ball down an alley)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequena taberna; baiúca 2. casa onde se joga a bola 3. desporto cujo objetivo é derrubar, com uma bola, uma série de pinos alinhados ao fundo de uma pista
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 boliche
- boliches plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boliche?
- Brazil /boˈli.ʃi/
- Portugal /buˈli.ʃɨ/
- Portugal /buˈlit.ʃɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to boliche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is boliche in Portuguese?
boliche appears 1.9 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).