percebe
Portuguese, noun/peʁˈse.bi/
percebe is spelled P-E-R-C-E-B-E (7 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,999th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Percebe is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “barnacle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of perceber. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “crustáceo que vive afixado nas rochas marinhas, tem forma de unha e pé rugoso”.
What does percebe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebarnacle
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. crustáceo que vive afixado nas rochas marinhas, tem forma de unha e pé rugoso,
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 percebe
- percebes plural
- perceve alternative
- perceba alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce percebe?
- Brazil /peʁˈse.bi/
- Brazil [pehˈse.bi]
- /peɾˈse.bi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to percebe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is percebe in Portuguese?
percebe appears 30 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).