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hobgoblin

Portuguese, noun

hobgoblin is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hobgoblin (mischievous goblin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does hobgoblin mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehobgoblin (mischievous goblin)

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

Forms of hobgoblin

  • hobgoblins plural

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

English words that translate to hobgoblin

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

How common is hobgoblin in Portuguese?

hobgoblin appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).