facão
Portuguese, noun
facão is spelled F-A-C-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “machete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an augmentative of faca (“knife”). With a cedilla, fação is a different word: “European Portuguese standard spelling of facção”.
What does facão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaugmentative of faca (“knife”)
- 2
masculinemachete
noun
- 1
feminineEuropean Portuguese standard spelling of facção
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. expedição militar ou feito de armas heroico 2. grupo de indivíduos partidários de uma mesma causa em oposição à de outros grupos; na modernidade, o termo passou a designar cada grupo antagónico que disputa a supremacia política
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 facão
- facões plural
- fações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to facão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is facão in Portuguese?
facão appears 1.4 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).