degradê
Portuguese, noun
degradê is spelled D-E-G-R-A-D-Ê (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,709th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Degradê is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “colour gradient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, degrade is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cor ou iluminação que apresenta esse padrão”.
What does degradê mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinegradated, fading gradually (of a color)
noun
- 1
masculinecolour gradient
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. cor ou iluminação que varia gradativamente os tons
noun: 1. cor ou iluminação que apresenta esse padrão
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 degradê
- degradês plural
- dégradé alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to degradê
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is degradê in Portuguese?
degradê appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).