alerta
Portuguese, noun/aˈlɛʁ.tɐ/
alerta is spelled A-L-E-R-T-A (6 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,566th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alerta is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “warning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of alertar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o fato de alertar”.
What does alerta mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinealert (attentive)
adverb
- 1
alertly (with alertness)
noun
- 1
masculinewarning
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que está em estado de prontidão
adverb: 1. em guarda
interjection: 1. atenção !
noun: 1. o fato de alertar 2. aviso
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 alerta
- alertas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alerta?
- Brazil /aˈlɛʁ.tɐ/
- Brazil [aˈlɛh.tɐ]
- /aˈlɛɾ.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alerta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alerta in Portuguese?
alerta appears 35 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).