rabecão
Portuguese, noun/ʁa.beˈkɐ̃w̃/
rabecão is spelled R-A-B-E-C-Ã-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 91,721st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rabecão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hearse (vehicle for transporting dead)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “viatura que faz o transporte de cadáveres humanos até o Instituto Médico Legal”.
What does rabecão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehearse (vehicle for transporting dead)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. viatura que faz o transporte de cadáveres humanos até o Instituto Médico Legal
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 rabecão
- rabecões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rabecão?
- Brazil /ʁa.beˈkɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [ha.beˈkɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- /ʁa.beˈkɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rabecão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rabecão in Portuguese?
rabecão appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).