lisboa

Other forms of lisboa

plural

lisboas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lisboa

What does lisboa mean?

lisboa means "capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic".

How many syllables are in lisboa?

lisboa has 3 syllables and divides as lis-bo-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lisboa?

Close synonyms include Lisbon, capital of Portugal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lisboa a common word?

lisboa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.