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vinho

/ˈvinjoʊ/noun

vinho is a noun meaning “Portuguese wine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-N-H-O, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vinho is vinhos.

What does vinho mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Portuguese wine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce vinho?

  • UK /ˈviːnjəʊ/
  • US /ˈvinjoʊ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vinho.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of vinho

  • vinhos plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vinho?

Vinho appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Where does vinho come from?

Borrowed from Portuguese vinho (“wine”); compare vino. Doublet of wine and vine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).