al
Portuguese, pronoun
al is spelled A-L (2 letters) and appears 98 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,007th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Al is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “everything, the rest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, AL is a different word: “initialism of alojamento local”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “outra pessoa”.
What does al mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
obsoleteeverything, the rest
- 2
obsoleteother, another
noun
- 1
masculineinitialism of alojamento local
suffix
- 1
femininemasculine-al (of or pertaining to)
- 2
femininemasculineforms synonyms of adjectives containing the suffix -ico
suffix
- 1
femininemasculineappended to noun X, forms nouns meaning “a collection X” or “a large quantity of X”
- 2
femininemasculineappended to noun X, forms nouns meaning “a place where there is plenty of X” or "field where a plant is cultivated"
suffix
- 1
masculineforms the names of alcohols
- 2
masculine-al; forms the names of aldehydes
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. América Latina 2. Assembleia Legislativa 3. Estado de Alagoas 4. Aliança Liberal
pronoun: 1. outra pessoa 2. algo, outra coisa
noun: 1. o mais, o resto
suffix: 1. concernente ou próprio de 2. pertencente a um lugar específico 3. coletivo de 4. ideia de hábitat
prefix: 1. prefixo que é assimilado à palavra de origem árabe cuja inicial é uma das seguintes consoantes: c, d, r e z
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.
How common is al in Portuguese?
al appears 98 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).