esboço
Portuguese, noun/izˈbo.su/
esboço is spelled E-S-B-O-Ç-O (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,472nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esboço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sketch (quick drawing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of esboçar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desenho rápido (para estudo inicial), primeiros traços de um desenho, delineamento inicial de uma…”.
What does esboço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesketch (quick drawing)
- 2
masculinea rough draft
- 3
masculinerudiment
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of esboçar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. desenho rápido (para estudo inicial), primeiros traços de um desenho, delineamento inicial de uma representação gráfica
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 esboço
- esboços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esboço?
- Brazil /izˈbo.su/
- Brazil /ezˈbo.su/
- /iʒˈbo.su/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to esboço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esboço in Portuguese?
esboço appears 3.2 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).