chibé
Portuguese, noun
chibé is spelled C-H-I-B-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written Portuguese, the 251,849th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chibé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a traditional drink of Amazonian origin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, chibe is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mistura de farinha com água e açúcar”.
What does chibé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea traditional drink of Amazonian origin
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mistura de farinha com água e açúcar 2. bolo de farinha de mandioca 3. planta com que se defuma a borracha 4. certa ave aquática
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 chibé
- chibés plural
- xibé alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is chibé in Portuguese?
chibé appears about once in every 85 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).