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carbúnculo

Portuguese, noun/kaʁˈbũ.ku.lu/

carbúnculo is spelled C-A-R-B-Ú-N-C-U-L-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carbúnculo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “carbuncle (large abscess)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does carbúnculo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecarbuncle (large abscess)

  2. 2

    masculinecarbuncle (disease)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of carbúnculo

  • carbúnculos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce carbúnculo?

  • Brazil /kaʁˈbũ.ku.lu/
  • Brazil [kaɦˈbũ.ku.lu]
  • /kaɾˈbũ.ku.lu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to carbúnculo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is carbúnculo in Portuguese?

carbúnculo appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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