duns
Portuguese, contraction/ˈdũs/
duns is spelled D-U-N-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,402nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Duns is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of de (“of/from”) + uns (“some”, masculine plural): masculine plural of dum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração de de + uns”.
What does duns mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of de (“of/from”) + uns (“some”, masculine plural): masculine plural of dum
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração de de + uns
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 duns
- d'uns alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce duns?
- Brazil /ˈdũs/
- /ˈdũʃ/
- Portugal /ˈdũʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is duns in Portuguese?
duns appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).