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volleyball

Portuguese, noun

volleyball is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dated form of voleibol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver voleibol”.

What does volleyball mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    datedmasculinedated form of voleibol

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ver voleibol

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.

How common is volleyball in Portuguese?

volleyball appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).