elo
Portuguese, pronoun/ˈɛ.lu/
elo is spelled E-L-O (3 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Elo is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “they, them (singular) (a gender-neutral or genderqueer singular third-person personal pronoun)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does elo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelink
pronoun
- 1
informalthey, them (singular) (a gender-neutral or genderqueer singular third-person personal pronoun)
suffix
- 1
masculineforms diminutives; -ling; -let
- 2
masculineforms names of things that share a characteristic with the suffixed word, usually carrying a diminutive aspect
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cada uma das argolas de uma corrente 2. ligação
suffix: 1. forma substantivos diminutivos, por vezes já derivados do latim vulgar, e distanciados do lexema raiz
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 elo
- elos plural
- êlu alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce elo?
- Brazil /ˈɛ.lu/
- Portugal /ˈɛ.lu/
- Brazil /ˈe.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to elo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is elo in Portuguese?
elo appears 6.5 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).