delicatesse
Portuguese, noun
delicatesse is spelled D-E-L-I-C-A-T-E-S-S-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written Portuguese, the 205,610th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Delicatesse is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of delicatessen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estabelecimento comercial que vende iguarias, comidas e refeições prontas”.
What does delicatesse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of delicatessen
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estabelecimento comercial que vende iguarias, comidas e refeições prontas
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 delicatesse
- delicatesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is delicatesse in Portuguese?
delicatesse appears about once in every 54 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).