vagaba
Portuguese, noun
vagaba is spelled V-A-G-A-B-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 100,600th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vagaba is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “clipping of vagabundo m or vagabunda f” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mulher que, não sendo necessariamente uma prostituta, leva uma vida devassa”.
What does vagaba mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialderogatoryfemininemasculineclipping of vagabundo m or vagabunda f
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mulher que, não sendo necessariamente uma prostituta, leva uma vida devassa
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 vagaba
- vagabas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vagaba in Portuguese?
vagaba appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).