clone
Portuguese, noun/ˈklõ.ni/
clone is spelled C-L-O-N-E (5 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,234th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clone is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “clone (organism produced asexually from a single ancestor)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of clonar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “reprodução fiel e idêntica de algo ou alguém real ou virtual”.
What does clone mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclone (organism produced asexually from a single ancestor)
- 2
masculineclone (copy of something already existing)
- 3
masculineclone (group of identical cells derived from a single cell)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. reprodução fiel e idêntica de algo ou alguém real ou virtual
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 clone
- clones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clone?
- Brazil /ˈklõ.ni/
- Portugal /klɔ.nɨ/
- Portugal /ˈklɔ.nɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to clone
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clone in Portuguese?
clone appears 4.5 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).