codec
Portuguese, noun/koˈdɛ.ki/
codec is spelled C-O-D-E-C (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,634th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Codec is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “codec (a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “codificador/decodificador”.
What does codec mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecodec (a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. codificador/decodificador
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 codec
- codecs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce codec?
- Brazil /koˈdɛ.ki/
- Brazil /koˈdɛk/
- Portugal /kuˈdɛk/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to codec
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is codec in Portuguese?
codec appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).