vibrafone
Portuguese, noun/vi.bɾaˈfõ.ni/
vibrafone is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “vibraphone (percussion instrument with tuned metal bars and a motor-driven rotating vane)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrumento musical de percussão melódica semelhante a um xilofone e que faz parte dos metalofones e idiofones”.
What does vibrafone mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevibraphone (percussion instrument with tuned metal bars and a motor-driven rotating vane)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instrumento musical de percussão melódica semelhante a um xilofone e que faz parte dos metalofones e idiofones
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 vibrafone
- vibrafones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vibrafone?
- Brazil /vi.bɾaˈfõ.ni/
- Portugal /vi.bɾɐˈfɔ.nɨ/
- Portugal [vi.βɾɐˈfɔ.nɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vibrafone
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vibrafone in Portuguese?
vibrafone appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).