crucial
Portuguese, adjective/kɾu.siˈaw/
crucial is spelled C-R-U-C-I-A-L (7 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crucial is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “crucial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “essencial”.
What does crucial mean in English?
adjective
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. essencial
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 crucial
- cruciais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crucial?
- Brazil /kɾu.siˈaw/
- Brazil [kɾu.siˈaʊ̯]
- Brazil /kɾuˈsjaw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crucial
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crucial in Portuguese?
crucial appears 8.9 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).