alfaiate
Portuguese, noun/aw.fajˈa.t͡ʃi/
alfaiate is spelled A-L-F-A-I-A-T-E (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31,685th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alfaiate is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tailor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of alfaiatar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele que trabalha na confecção de roupas”.
What does alfaiate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetailor
- 2
masculinepied avocet, a bird
- 3
masculinewater strider, an insect of the family Gerridae
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aquele que trabalha na confecção de roupas
noun: 1. inseto aquático de pernas compridas que se sustém sobre a superfície da água Gerris lacustris 2. joaninha
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 alfaiate
- alfaiates plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alfaiate?
- Brazil /aw.fajˈa.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.faɪ̯ˈa.t͡ʃi]
- Portugal /al.fɐˈja.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alfaiate
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alfaiate in Portuguese?
alfaiate appears 1.1 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).