cereal
Portuguese, noun/se.ɾeˈaw/
cereal is spelled C-E-R-E-A-L (6 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,106th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cereal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “os grãos comestíveis de diversas plantas como trigo, cevada, milho”.
What does cereal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecereal (type of grass cultivated for edible grains)
- 2
masculinecereal (the grains of such plants)
- 3
masculinebreakfast cereal (food processed from grains and eaten with milk)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. os grãos comestíveis de diversas plantas como trigo, cevada, milho 2. alimento que consiste de flocos feitos de grão daqueles acima citados
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 cereal
- cereais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cereal?
- Brazil /se.ɾeˈaw/
- Brazil [se.ɾeˈaʊ̯]
- Brazil /se.ɾiˈaw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cereal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cereal in Portuguese?
cereal appears 2.2 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).