dentuço
Portuguese, noun/dẽˈtu.su/
dentuço is spelled D-E-N-T-U-Ç-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 99,585th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dentuço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a person with buckteeth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does dentuço mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bucktoothed (having buckteeth)
noun
- 1
masculinea person with buckteeth
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem os dentes grandes
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 dentuço
- dentuça feminine
- dentuços masculine plural
- dentuças feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dentuço?
- Brazil /dẽˈtu.su/
- Portugal /dẽˈtu.su/
- /de˜'tuˌsu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dentuço in Portuguese?
dentuço appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).