dos
Portuguese, contraction
dos is spelled D-O-S (3 letters) and appears 3,981 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 25th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dos is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of de + os, literally “of/from the (masculine plural)”: masculine plural of do” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dós is a different word: “plural of dó”. With a tilde, dõs is a different word: “plural of dõ”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração da preposição "de" com o artigo "os"”.
What does dos mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of de + os, literally “of/from the (masculine plural)”: masculine plural of do
dos Santos
noun
- 1
plural of dó
noun
- 1
plural of dõ
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração da preposição "de" com o artigo "os"
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 dos
- d'os alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is dos in Portuguese?
dos appears 3,981 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).