elle
Portuguese, pronoun
elle is spelled E-L-L-E (4 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Elle is a Portuguese masculine pronoun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ele” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide ele”.
What does elle mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ele
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. vide ele
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 elle
- ella feminine
- elles plural
- ellas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is elle in Portuguese?
elle appears 3.7 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).