umbu
Portuguese, noun
umbu is spelled U-M-B-U (4 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Umbu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of imbu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, umbú is a different word: “prescribed spelling of umbu under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fruto produzido pelo umbuzeiro”.
What does umbu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of imbu
noun
- 1
masculineprescribed spelling of umbu under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented; now a common misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fruto produzido pelo umbuzeiro
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 umbu
- umbús plural
- umbus plural
- umbú alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is umbu in Portuguese?
umbu appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).