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aligátor

Portuguese, noun

aligátor is spelled A-L-I-G-Á-T-O-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 136,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aligátor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alligator (crocodilian in the genus Alligator)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, aligator is a different word: “alternative form of aligátor”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “jacaré”.

What does aligátor mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealligator (crocodilian in the genus Alligator)

noun

as aligator
  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of aligátor

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. jacaré

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 aligátor

  • aligatores plural
  • aligátores plural
  • aligator alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to aligátor

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is aligátor in Portuguese?

aligátor appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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