alzheimer
Portuguese, noun
alzheimer is spelled A-L-Z-H-E-I-M-E-R (9 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,306th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alzheimer is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative letter-case form of Alzheimer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Alzheimer is a different word: “ellipsis of mal de Alzheimer: Alzheimer's”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “doença neurodegenerativa caracterizada por demência progressiva, perda de memória e declínio cognitivo”.
What does alzheimer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative letter-case form of Alzheimer
noun
- 1
masculineellipsis of mal de Alzheimer: Alzheimer's
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. doença neurodegenerativa caracterizada por demência progressiva, perda de memória e declínio cognitivo
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 alzheimer
- alzheimer alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is alzheimer in Portuguese?
alzheimer appears 4.0 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).