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espermatozoide

Portuguese, noun

espermatozoide is spelled E-S-P-E-R-M-A-T-O-Z-O-I-D-E (14 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,725th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espermatozoide is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “spermatozoon (reproductive cell of the male)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, espermatozóide is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of espermatozoide; still used…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “célula haploide masculina móvel responsável pela transmissão genética paterna na fecundação de um óvulo para…”.

What does espermatozoide mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinespermatozoon (reproductive cell of the male)

noun

as espermatozóide
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of espermatozoide; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. célula haploide masculina móvel responsável pela transmissão genética paterna na fecundação de um óvulo para formação de novo indivíduo nos animais de reprodução sexuada, produzida nas gônadas masculinas contribuem com aproximadamente metade da informação genética nuclear para a prole diploide (excluindo, na maioria dos casos, o DNA mitocondrial) e se forma durante o processo conhecido como esperm

noun: 1. vide espermatozoide

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 espermatozoide

  • espermatozoides plural
  • espermatozóide alternative
  • espermatozóides plural

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

English words that translate to espermatozoide

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is espermatozoide in Portuguese?

espermatozoide 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).

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