acre
Portuguese, noun/ˈa.kɾi/
acre is spelled A-C-R-E (4 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,157th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acre is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “English or American acre, a unit of area about equal to 0.4 hectares” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cheiro acre”.
What does acre mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinesharp (unpleasantly acrid or tart in taste)
noun
- 1
masculineEnglish or American acre, a unit of area about equal to 0.4 hectares
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estado localizado no sudoeste da Região Norte do Brasil que faz fronteira ao norte com o estado do Amazonas, ao leste com o estado de Rondônia, ao sudeste com a Bolívia e ao sul e ao oeste com o Peru 2. cidade de Israel situada na região da Galileia, na costa do Mediterrâneo
adjective: 1. cujo sabor é azedo 2. que possui cheiro intenso e enjoativo 3. de som penetrante e agudo 4. agressivo na crítica
noun: 1. cheiro acre 2. sabor acre 3. unidade de medida de área de dimensões variáveis (equivalente a aproximadamente 4.048 metros quadrados na Inglaterra e Estados Unidos)
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.
Forms of acre
- acres plural
- agre alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acre?
- Brazil /ˈa.kɾi/
- Portugal /ˈa.kɾɨ/
- Brazil /ˈa.kɾɪ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acre in Portuguese?
acre appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).