chumbado
Portuguese, adjective/ʃũˈba.du/
chumbado is spelled C-H-U-M-B-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 87,166th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chumbado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “leaded (held on place by strips of lead)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of chumbar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que se chumbou”.
What does chumbado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
leaded (held on place by strips of lead)
- 2
filled (of a tooth)
Tenho um dente chumbado.
- 3
Portugalcolloquialflunked
Aquela turma conta com três alunos chumbados.
- 4
colloquialsick
- 5
colloquialdrunk; wasted
verb
- 1
past participle of chumbar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se chumbou
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 chumbado
- chumbada feminine
- chumbados masculine plural
- chumbadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chumbado?
- Brazil /ʃũˈba.du/
- Portugal /ʃũˈba.du/
- Portugal [ʃũˈba.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chumbado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chumbado in Portuguese?
chumbado appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).