alquila
Portuguese, noun
alquila is spelled A-L-Q-U-I-L-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written Portuguese, the 172,935th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alquila is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alkyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of alquilar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “radical alcoólico e monovalente, formado pela retirada de uma átomo de hidrogênio do composto orgânico…”.
What does alquila mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealkyl
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
noun: 1. radical alcoólico e monovalente, formado pela retirada de uma átomo de hidrogênio do composto orgânico (alcano) que este forma com átomos de carbono
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 alquila
- alquilas plural
- alquilo alternative Portugal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to alquila
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alquila in Portuguese?
alquila appears about once in every 36 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).