defendê
Portuguese, verb
defendê is spelled D-E-F-E-N-D-Ê (7 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,936th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Defendê is a Portuguese verb meaning “apocopic form of defender; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, defende is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”.
What does defendê mean in English?
verb
- 1
apocopic form of defender; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common is defendê in Portuguese?
defendê appears 30 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).