portuguese

Other forms of portuguese

plural

portugueses·

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 portuguese

What does portuguese mean?

portuguese means "the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in portuguese?

portuguese has 3 syllables: por-tu-guese. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹtʃəˌɡiz/.

What is another word for portuguese?

Close synonyms include Lusitanian. 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 portuguese a common word?

portuguese is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.