frescobol
Portuguese, noun/fɾes.koˈbɔw/
frescobol is spelled F-R-E-S-C-O-B-O-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 93,598th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frescobol is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “frescobol (racket sport)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esporte jogado por dois jogadores ou mais, onde nas jogadas raquetes e uma bola são utilizadas”.
What does frescobol mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefrescobol (racket sport)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. esporte jogado por dois jogadores ou mais, onde nas jogadas raquetes e uma bola são utilizadas
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 frescobol?
- Brazil /fɾes.koˈbɔw/
- Brazil [fɾes.koˈbɔʊ̯]
- /fɾeʃ.koˈbɔw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frescobol in Portuguese?
frescobol appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).