concelho
Portuguese, noun/kõˈse.ʎu/
concelho is spelled C-O-N-C-E-L-H-O (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,928th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Concelho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “county, municipality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “circunscrição administrativa”.
What does concelho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecounty, municipality
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. circunscrição administrativa 2. subdivisão do distrito 3. município
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 concelho
- concelhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce concelho?
- Brazil /kõˈse.ʎu/
- Portugal /kõˈsɐ(j).ʎu/
- Portugal /kõˈse.ʎu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to concelho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is concelho in Portuguese?
concelho appears 13 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).