directo
Portuguese, adjective
directo is spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-O (7 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Directo is a Portuguese adjective meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of direto; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide direto”.
What does directo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of direto; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. vide direto
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 directo
- directa feminine
- directos masculine plural
- directas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is directo in Portuguese?
directo appears 8.9 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).