defensível
Portuguese, adjective/de.fẽˈsi.vew/
defensível is spelled D-E-F-E-N-S-Í-V-E-L (10 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese, the 266,412th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Defensível is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “defendable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does defensível mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinedefendable
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of defensível
- defensíveis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce defensível?
- Brazil /de.fẽˈsi.vew/
- Brazil [de.fẽˈsi.veʊ̯]
- Portugal /dɨ.fẽˈsi.vɛl/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is defensível in Portuguese?
defensível appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).