arruela
Portuguese, noun/a.ʁuˈɛ.lɐ/
arruela is spelled A-R-R-U-E-L-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 111,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arruela is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “washer (flat disk placed beneath a nut)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequena chapa circular com orifício circular no centro, usada para melhorar a fixação de um parafuso”.
What does arruela mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewasher (flat disk placed beneath a nut)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequena chapa circular com orifício circular no centro, usada para melhorar a fixação de um parafuso 2. besante
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo arruelar
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 arruela
- arruelas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arruela?
- Brazil /a.ʁuˈɛ.lɐ/
- Brazil [a.huˈɛ.lɐ]
- Brazil /aˈʁwɛ.lɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arruela
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arruela in Portuguese?
arruela appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).