aos
Portuguese, contraction/aws/
aos is spelled A-O-S (3 letters) and appears 851 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 106th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aos is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of a + os, literally “to the (masculine plural)”: masculine plural of ao” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração da preposição a com o artigo definido plural os”.
What does aos mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of a + os, literally “to the (masculine plural)”: masculine plural of ao
suffix
- 1
plural of -ão
- 2
masculinemasculine plural of -ão
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração da preposição a com o artigo definido plural os
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 aos
- òs alternative archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aos?
- Brazil /aws/
- Brazil [aʊ̯s]
- /awʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aos in Portuguese?
aos appears 851 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).