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comboio

Portuguese, noun

comboio is spelled C-O-M-B-O-I-O (7 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,280th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Comboio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “train (line of connected cars or carriages)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of comboiar. With an accent, combóio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of comboiar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “meio de transporte composto por um ou vários veículos ligados entre si, com a função de transportar pessoas…”.

What does comboio mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Portugalmasculinetrain (line of connected cars or carriages)

  2. 2

    masculineconvoy

  3. 3

    masculineconvoy (group of vehicles)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of comboiar

verb

as combóio
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of comboiar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. meio de transporte composto por um ou vários veículos ligados entre si, com a função de transportar pessoas ou carga sobre uma linha ou trilho, segundo uma rota previamente planejada 2. conjunto de veículos, animais de carga ou indivíduos que deslocam-se organizadamente de um ponto a outro, com ou sem carregamento 3. transporte de munição, provisões e/ou equipamentos levados pelas tropas em uma campanha 4. escolta de prisioneiros e/ou feridos em meio a uma guerra

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 comboio

  • comboios plural
  • combóio alternative

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

English words that translate to comboio

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

How common is comboio in Portuguese?

comboio appears 12 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).

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