anjinhos
Portuguese, noun
anjinhos is spelled A-N-J-I-N-H-O-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 42,362nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anjinhos is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of anjinho” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “anéis de ferro, como algemas, com que se prendiam e apertavam os dois dedos polegares de criminosos presos ou…”.
What does anjinhos mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of anjinho
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. anéis de ferro, como algemas, com que se prendiam e apertavam os dois dedos polegares de criminosos presos ou escravos
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.
How common is anjinhos in Portuguese?
anjinhos appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).