adware
Portuguese, noun/aˈdwa.ɾi/
adware is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “adware (software application that displays advertisements)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “software que executando-se localmente em uma máquina computacional publicita propaganda ao utilizador”.
What does adware mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineadware (software application that displays advertisements)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. software que executando-se localmente em uma máquina computacional publicita propaganda ao utilizador
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 adware
- adwares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adware?
- Brazil /aˈdwa.ɾi/
- Portugal /ɐˈdwa.ɾɨ/
- Portugal [ɐˈðwa.ɾɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adware
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adware in Portuguese?
adware appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).