auxílio
Portuguese, noun
auxílio is spelled A-U-X-Í-L-I-O (7 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,969th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auxílio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “help, assistance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, auxilio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of auxiliar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de auxiliar ou socorrer”.
What does auxílio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehelp, assistance
- 2
masculinesupport
- 3
masculinerelief
- 4
masculinerescue
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of auxiliar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de auxiliar ou socorrer: 2. ajuda, amparo, arrimo: 3. contribuição, esmola:
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 auxílio
- auxílios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to auxílio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is auxílio in Portuguese?
auxílio appears 21 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).