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espéculo

Portuguese, noun

espéculo is spelled E-S-P-É-C-U-L-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 117,162nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espéculo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “speculum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, especulo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of especular”.

What does espéculo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinespeculum

verb

as especulo
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of especular

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of espéculo

  • espéculos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is espéculo in Portuguese?

espéculo appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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