dezessete
Portuguese, noun/de.zeˈsɛ.t͡ʃi/
dezessete is spelled D-E-Z-E-S-S-E-T-E (9 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,472nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dezessete is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “seventeen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o número dezessete (17, XVII)”.
What does dezessete mean in English?
number
- 1
femininemasculineseventeen
noun
- 1
masculineseventeen
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
number: 1. dez mais sete 2. aquele que, numa ordenação, ocupa o décimo sétimo lugar
noun: 1. o número dezessete (17, XVII) 2. nota correspondente a dezessete valores 3. pessoa ou coisa que apresenta o número dezessete numa ordenação
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 dezessete
- dezassete alternative Portugal
- dezesete alternative obsolete
- dezessetes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dezessete?
- Brazil /de.zeˈsɛ.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.zeˈsɛ.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil /dzeˈsɛ.t͡ʃi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dezessete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dezessete in Portuguese?
dezessete appears 3.2 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).