rébus
Portuguese, noun
rébus is spelled R-É-B-U-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rébus is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “rebus (puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, rebus is a different word: “plural of rebu”.
What does rébus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerebus (puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words)
noun
- 1
plural of rebu
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
English words that translate to rébus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rébus in Portuguese?
rébus appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).