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dodô

Portuguese, noun

dodô is spelled D-O-D-Ô (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 38,633rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dodô is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dodo (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dodó is a different word: “alternative form of dodô”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que dodo, dodó”.

What does dodô mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Brazilmasculinedodo (bird)

noun

as dodó
  1. 1

    Portugalmasculinealternative form of dodô

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ave da extinta espécie Raphus cucullatus, oriunda de Maurício

noun: 1. o mesmo que dodo, dodó

noun: 1. o mesmo que dodo, dodô

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 dodô

  • dodôs plural
  • dodó alternative
  • dodós plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to dodô

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is dodô in Portuguese?

dodô 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).

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