dois
Portuguese, noun/ˈdojs/
dois is spelled D-O-I-S (4 letters) and appears 832 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 111th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dois is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “deuce (card with two spots)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o número dois (2, II)”.
What does dois mean in English?
number
- 1
masculinetwo (cardinal number 2)
dois amantes, duas almas
adjective
- 1
second
noun
- 1
masculinedeuce (card with two spots)
- 2
masculinedeuce (side of a die with two spots)
- 3
masculinetwo (the character or digit ‘2’)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
number: 1. número equivalente a um mais um; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha um elemento e um outro elemento distinto; representado pelo símbolo 2 (algarismos indo-arábicos) ou II (algarismos romanos); seu feminino é duas
noun: 1. o número dois (2, II) 2. nota correspondente a dois valores: 3. pessoa ou coisa que apresenta o número dois numa ordenação: 4. segundo dia dum mês
noun: 1. plural de dois
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 dois
- duas feminine
- dous alternative dated
- doys alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dois?
- Brazil /ˈdojs/
- Brazil [ˈdoɪ̯s]
- /ˈdojʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dois
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dois in Portuguese?
dois appears 832 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).