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oboé

Portuguese, noun/o.boˈɛ/

oboé is spelled O-B-O-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 52,034th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oboé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “oboe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrumento musical de sopro de palheta dupla da família das madeiras”.

What does oboé mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineoboe

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. instrumento musical de sopro de palheta dupla da família das madeiras

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 oboé

  • oboés plural

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

How do you pronounce oboé?

  • Brazil /o.boˈɛ/
  • Portugal /ɔˈbwɛ/
  • Portugal [ɔˈβwɛ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to oboé

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

How common is oboé in Portuguese?

oboé appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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