decímetro
Portuguese, noun/deˈsĩ.me.tɾu/
decímetro is spelled D-E-C-Í-M-E-T-R-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written Portuguese, the 239,085th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Decímetro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “decimetre (one-tenth of a metre)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “unidade de comprimento correspondente a um décimo do metro [abrev.: dm]”.
What does decímetro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedecimetre (one-tenth of a metre)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. unidade de comprimento correspondente a um décimo do metro [abrev.: dm] 2. (Derivação: por metonímia): essa medida 3. (Derivação: por metonímia): régua que mede 1 dm
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 decímetro
- decímetros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce decímetro?
- Brazil /deˈsĩ.me.tɾu/
- Portugal /dɨˈsi.mɨ.tɾu/
- Portugal /dɨ.ˈsi.mɨ.tɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is decímetro in Portuguese?
decímetro appears about once in every 76 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).