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anti

Portuguese, adjective/ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

anti is spelled A-N-T-I (4 letters) and appears 48 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,967th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anti is a Portuguese adjective meaning “anti (that has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does anti mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    anti (that has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°)

prefix

as anti-
  1. 1

    anti-

  2. 2

    anti- (related to antiparticles or antimatter)

  3. 3

    anti-

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

prefix: 1. ideia de hostilidade, proteção, oposição

noun: 1. aquele que é contrário

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 do you pronounce anti?

  • Brazil /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • Portugal /ˌɐ̃.ti/
  • Brazil /ɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to anti

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

How common is anti in Portuguese?

anti appears 48 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).

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