faisão
Portuguese, noun/fajˈzɐ̃w̃/
faisão is spelled F-A-I-S-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,234th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faisão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pheasant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome vulgar de aves galináceas pertencentes à família dos Fasianídeos que apresentam plumagem de grande…”.
What does faisão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepheasant
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome vulgar de aves galináceas pertencentes à família dos Fasianídeos que apresentam plumagem de grande beleza; seu nome científico é Phasianus colchicus
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 faisão
- faisões plural
- faisães plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faisão?
- Brazil /fajˈzɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [faɪ̯ˈzɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /fajˈzɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to faisão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faisão in Portuguese?
faisão appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).