bufão
Portuguese, noun/buˈfɐ̃w̃/
bufão is spelled B-U-F-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 80,231st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bufão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “buffoon; jester; fool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “truão, fanfarrão, bufo”.
What does bufão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebuffoon; jester; fool
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. truão, fanfarrão, bufo
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 bufão
- bufões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bufão?
- Brazil /buˈfɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [buˈfɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /buˈfɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bufão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bufão in Portuguese?
bufão appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).