dous
Portuguese, number/ˈdo(w)s/
dous is spelled D-O-U-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dous is a Portuguese number meaning “dated form of dois” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “número equivalente a um mais um; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha um elemento e um outro elemento…”.
What does dous mean in English?
number
- 1
dateddated form of dois
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
noun: 1. plural de dous
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 dous
- duas feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dous?
- Brazil /ˈdo(w)s/
- Brazil [ˈdo(ʊ̯)s]
- /ˈdo(w)ʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dous in Portuguese?
dous appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).