dreadlocks
Portuguese, noun/ˌdɾɛ.d͡ʒiˈlɔ.kis/
dreadlocks is spelled D-R-E-A-D-L-O-C-K-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 88,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dreadlocks is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dreadlocks (hair left to grow into long matted strings)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does dreadlocks mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedreadlocks (hair left to grow into long matted strings)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce dreadlocks?
- Brazil /ˌdɾɛ.d͡ʒiˈlɔ.kis/
- Brazil /ˌdɾɛd͡ʒˈlɔks/
- /ˌdɾɛ.d͡ʒiˈlɔ.kis/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dreadlocks
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dreadlocks in Portuguese?
dreadlocks appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).