ellas
Portuguese, pronoun
ellas is spelled E-L-L-A-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ellas is a Portuguese feminine pronoun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of elas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide elas”.
What does ellas mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of elas
suffix
- 1
plural of -ella
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. vide elas
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.
How common is ellas in Portuguese?
ellas appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).