dezesseis
Portuguese, noun/de.zeˈsejs/
dezesseis is spelled D-E-Z-E-S-S-E-I-S (9 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,278th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dezesseis is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sixteen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does dezesseis mean in English?
number
- 1
femininemasculinesixteen
noun
- 1
masculinesixteen
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
number: 1. número equivalente a quinze mais um; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha dezesseis elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 16 (algarismos arábicos) ou XVI (algarismos romanos)
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 dezesseis
- dezasseis alternative Portugal
- desaseis alternative obsolete
- desaseys alternative obsolete rare
- desasseis alternative obsolete
- deseseis alternative obsolete
- desesseis alternative
- dezaseis alternative obsolete
- dezaseys alternative obsolete
- dezasseys alternative obsolete rare
- dezeseis alternative
- dez e seis alternative obsolete rare
- dez e seys alternative obsolete rare
- dizesseis alternative Brazil pronunciation-spelling
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dezesseis?
- Brazil /de.zeˈsejs/
- Brazil [de.zeˈseɪ̯s]
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.zeˈsejs/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dezesseis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dezesseis in Portuguese?
dezesseis appears 3.6 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).