fax
Portuguese, noun/ˈfaks/
fax is spelled F-A-X (3 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,306th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fax is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “fax (document transmitted by telephone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aparelho transmissor e receptor de documentos em fac-símile”.
What does fax mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefax (document transmitted by telephone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aparelho transmissor e receptor de documentos em fac-símile 2. o próprio documento enviado ou recebido por esse meio
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 fax
- faxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fax?
- Brazil /ˈfaks/
- Portugal /ˈfaks/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fax
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fax in Portuguese?
fax appears 4.0 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).