bitcoin
Portuguese, noun
bitcoin is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “bitcoin (a cryptocurrency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bitcoin is a different word: “alternative letter-case form of bitcoin”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “moeda virtual criptografada de código aberto, descentralizada”.
What does bitcoin mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinebitcoin (a cryptocurrency)
- 2
femininemasculinebitcoin (a unit of the bitcoin)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative letter-case form of bitcoin
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. moeda virtual criptografada de código aberto, descentralizada
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 bitcoin
- bitcoins plural
- Bitcoin alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bitcoin
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bitcoin in Portuguese?
bitcoin appears 2.7 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).