aval
Portuguese, noun/aˈvaw/
aval is spelled A-V-A-L (4 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,696th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aval is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “permit (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “garantia de pagamento de um determinado título de crédito”.
What does aval mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepermit (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- 2
masculineauthorization, approval
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. garantia de pagamento de um determinado título de crédito 2. apoio em uma determinada decisão
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 aval
- avais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aval?
- Brazil /aˈvaw/
- Brazil [aˈvaʊ̯]
- Portugal /ɐˈval/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aval
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aval in Portuguese?
aval appears 3.2 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).