dispensável
Portuguese, adjective/d͡ʒis.pẽˈsa.vew/
dispensável is spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-Á-V-E-L (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,025th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dispensável is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “dispensable, unnecessary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que se pode dispensar”.
What does dispensável mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinedispensable, unnecessary
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se pode dispensar 2. desnecessário
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 dispensável
- dispensáveis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dispensável?
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.pẽˈsa.vew/
- Brazil [d͡ʒis.pẽˈsa.veʊ̯]
- /d͡ʒiʃ.pẽˈsa.vew/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dispensável
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dispensável in Portuguese?
dispensável appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).