albedo
Portuguese, noun/awˈbe.du/
albedo is spelled A-L-B-E-D-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 97,539th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Albedo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “albedo (the fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “razão entre a luz refletida e a energia luminosa incidente sobre uma superfície”.
What does albedo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealbedo (the fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. razão entre a luz refletida e a energia luminosa incidente sobre uma superfície
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 albedo
- albedos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce albedo?
- Brazil /awˈbe.du/
- Brazil [aʊ̯ˈbe.du]
- Portugal /alˈbe.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to albedo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is albedo in Portuguese?
albedo appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).