portugais
French, noun
portugais is spelled P-O-R-T-U-G-A-I-S (9 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,565th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Portugais is a French masculine noun meaning “Portuguese, the Portuguese language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Portugais is a different word: “a native of Portugal; a Portuguese”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue parlée au Portugal, au Brésil, en Angola, au Mozambique, à Macao en Guinée-Bissau, au Cap-Vert, à Goa…”.
What does portugais mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinePortuguese, the Portuguese language
adjective
- 1
Portuguese
noun
- 1
masculinea native of Portugal; a Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif au Portugal, à ses habitants, à sa culture. 2. Relatif à la langue portugaise.
noun: 1. Langue parlée au Portugal, au Brésil, en Angola, au Mozambique, à Macao en Guinée-Bissau, au Cap-Vert, à Goa, à Sao Tomé-et-Principe et au Timor oriental.
noun: 1. Habitant du Portugal. 2. Le peuple portugais.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of portugais
- portugaise feminine
- portugaises feminine plural
- Portugaise feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to portugais
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is portugais in French?
portugais appears 16 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).