andorinhão
Portuguese, noun/ɐ̃.do.ɾĩˈɲɐ̃w̃/
andorinhão is spelled A-N-D-O-R-I-N-H-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written Portuguese, the 220,311th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Andorinhão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “swift (small bird of the family Apodidae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ave semelhante a uma andorinha, de tamanho maior, negra, com muita habilidade no voo, nunca pousa no chão, da…”.
What does andorinhão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineswift (small bird of the family Apodidae)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ave semelhante a uma andorinha, de tamanho maior, negra, com muita habilidade no voo, nunca pousa no chão, da família Apodidae
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 andorinhão
- andorinhões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce andorinhão?
- Brazil /ɐ̃.do.ɾĩˈɲɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [ɐ̃.do.ɾĩˈj̃ɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /ɐ̃.du.ɾiˈɲɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to andorinhão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is andorinhão in Portuguese?
andorinhão appears about once in every 63 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).