ditongo
Portuguese, noun/d͡ʒiˈtõ.ɡu/
ditongo is spelled D-I-T-O-N-G-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 92,647th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ditongo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “diphthong (a complex vowel segment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grupo de dois fonemas vocálicos pronunciados em uma só emissão de voz; constitui-se por uma vogal silábica…”.
What does ditongo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediphthong (a complex vowel segment)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grupo de dois fonemas vocálicos pronunciados em uma só emissão de voz; constitui-se por uma vogal silábica, ou base, e por uma semivogal /i/ ou /u/
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 ditongo
- ditongos plural
- diphthongo alternative obsolete
- dithongo alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ditongo?
- Brazil /d͡ʒiˈtõ.ɡu/
- Portugal /diˈtõ.ɡu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ditongo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ditongo in Portuguese?
ditongo appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).