exército
Portuguese, noun
exército is spelled E-X-É-R-C-I-T-O (8 letters) and appears 120 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exército is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “army” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, exercito is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of exercitar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “força armada ou corpo militar numeroso e bem organizado especializado em operações terrestres”.
What does exército mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinearmy
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of exercitar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. força armada ou corpo militar numeroso e bem organizado especializado em operações terrestres
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 exército
- exércitos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to exército
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exército in Portuguese?
exército appears 120 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).