doze
Portuguese, noun/ˈdo.zi/
doze is spelled D-O-Z-E (4 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,969th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doze is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “twelve (the digit 12)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does doze mean in English?
number
- 1
femininemasculinetwelve
noun
- 1
masculinetwelve (the digit 12)
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialfeminineshotgun (gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls)
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 onze mais um; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha uma dúzia de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 12 (algarismos arábicos), XII (algarismos romanos) ou 1100 (representação binária)
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 doze
- dozes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce doze?
- Brazil /ˈdo.zi/
- /ˈdo(w).zi/
- [ˈdo(ʊ̯).zi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to doze
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doze in Portuguese?
doze appears 21 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).