excepto
Portuguese, preposition
excepto is spelled E-X-C-E-P-T-O (7 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,491st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Excepto is a Portuguese preposition meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of exceto; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide exceto”.
What does excepto mean in English?
preposition
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of exceto; 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
adverb: 1. vide exceto
preposition: 1. vide exceto
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 excepto in Portuguese?
excepto appears 6.2 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).