cometa
Portuguese, noun/koˈme.tɐ/
cometa is spelled C-O-M-E-T-A (6 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,397th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cometa is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “comet (celestial body with a “tail” of matter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of cometer. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “astro de cauda luminosa que descreve órbita muito alongada em volta do Sol”.
What does cometa mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecomet (celestial body with a “tail” of matter)
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. astro de cauda luminosa que descreve órbita muito alongada em volta do Sol 2. caixeiro-viajante
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do presente do subjuntivo do verbo cometer 2. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo cometer 3. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo cometer
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 cometa
- cometas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cometa?
- Brazil /koˈme.tɐ/
- Portugal /kuˈme.tɐ/
- Portugal /ku.ˈme.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cometa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cometa in Portuguese?
cometa appears 4.9 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).