aves
Portuguese, noun/ˈa.vis/
aves is spelled A-V-E-S (4 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,286th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aves is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “plural of ave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “classe de animais vertebrados, craniotas, gnatostomados, tetrápodes, ovíparos, com a pele revestida por penas”.
What does aves mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of ave
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. classe de animais vertebrados, craniotas, gnatostomados, tetrápodes, ovíparos, com a pele revestida por penas
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 aves?
- Brazil /ˈa.vis/
- /ˈa.viʃ/
- Portugal /ˈa.vɨʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aves in Portuguese?
aves appears 15 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).