tabaco
Portuguese, noun/taˈba.ku/
tabaco is spelled T-A-B-A-C-O (6 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,015th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tabaco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Nicotiana tabacum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “planta herbácea da família das Solanáceas de origem americana”.
What does tabaco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineNicotiana tabacum
- 2
masculinecommon name, extended to other plants of the genus Nicotiana, whose leaves are used in the production of cigarettes, cigars, etc.
- 3
colloquialmasculinevagina, vulva
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. planta herbácea da família das Solanáceas de origem americana 2. as folhas servem para fumar, cheirar e mascar 3. designação dos preparados (fumo, rapé, etc.) feitos com as folhas secas dessa planta 4. cigarro de tabaco ou conjunto deles
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 tabaco
- tabacos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tabaco?
- Brazil /taˈba.ku/
- Portugal /tɐˈba.ku/
- Portugal [tɐˈβa.ku]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tabaco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tabaco in Portuguese?
tabaco appears 7.6 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).