embolo
Portuguese, verb/ˈẽ.bu.lu/
embolo is spelled E-M-B-O-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,715th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embolo is a Portuguese verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of embolar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does embolo mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of embolar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dispositivo que desliza num sentido e noutro no interior de um cilindro 2. obstrução interna de um cilindro hidráulico ou pneumático com a função de movimentar uma célula ou haste para trabalhos mecânicos
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.
How do you pronounce embolo?
- Portugal /ˈẽ.bu.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 embolo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embolo in Portuguese?
embolo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).