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playboy

Portuguese, noun/plejˈbɔj/

playboy is spelled P-L-A-Y-B-O-Y (7 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,018th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Playboy is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “playboy (man who devotes himself to pleasure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa, geralmente jovem, que ostenta riqueza”.

What does playboy mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineplayboy (man who devotes himself to pleasure)

  2. 2

    Brazilmasculineslanga rich person

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. pessoa, geralmente jovem, que ostenta riqueza

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 playboy

  • playboys plural
  • pleibói alternative
  • pleiba alternative

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

How do you pronounce playboy?

  • Brazil /plejˈbɔj/
  • Brazil [pleɪ̯ˈbɔɪ̯]
  • Portugal /plɐjˈbɔj/

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

English words that translate to playboy

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

How common is playboy in Portuguese?

playboy appears 5.8 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).

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