fez
Portuguese, noun
fez is spelled F-E-Z (3 letters) and appears 457 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 205th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fez is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a piece of faeces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular preterite indicative of fazer. With an accent, fêz is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “barrete em forma de cone truncado (usado por alguns muçulmanos)”.
What does fez mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerarea piece of faeces
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of fazer
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of fez
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. barrete em forma de cone truncado (usado por alguns muçulmanos)
noun: 1. fezes
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 fez
- fezes plural
- fêz alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fez
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fez in Portuguese?
fez appears 457 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).