chio
Portuguese, noun/ˈʃi.u/
chio is spelled C-H-I-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “an acute sound, squeak” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of chiar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “som agudo e forte”.
What does chio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean acute sound, squeak
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of chiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. som agudo e forte 2. voz aguda animal
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 chio
- chios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chio?
- Brazil /ˈʃi.u/
- Brazil /ˈʃiw/
- Brazil [ˈʃiʊ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chio in Portuguese?
chio appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).