NGB
Portuguese, noun
NGB is spelled N-G-B (3 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese, the 191,310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). NGB is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “initialism of Nomenclatura Gramatical Brasileira (“Brazilian Grammatical Nomenclature”), the official grammar terminology of Brazil's…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does NGB mean in English?
noun
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feminineinitialism of Nomenclatura Gramatical Brasileira (“Brazilian Grammatical Nomenclature”), the official grammar terminology of Brazil's educational system.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. sigla de Nomenclatura Gramatical Brasileira
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 common is NGB in Portuguese?
NGB appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).