íncubo
Portuguese, noun
íncubo is spelled Í-N-C-U-B-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written Portuguese, the 156,173rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Íncubo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “incubus (an evil spirit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, incubo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of incubar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que se deita por cima de algo”.
What does íncubo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineincubus (an evil spirit)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of incubar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. que se deita por cima de algo 2. ave em processo de incubação 3. demônio que fecundava as mulheres durante o sono causando ao mesmo tempo pesadelos.
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 íncubo
- íncubos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to íncubo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is íncubo in Portuguese?
íncubo appears about once in every 29 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).