filamento
Portuguese, noun/fi.laˈmẽ.tu/
filamento is spelled F-I-L-A-M-E-N-T-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 43,826th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “filament (fine thread or wire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fio muito fino”.
What does filamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefilament (fine thread or wire)
- 2
masculinefilament (wire in an incandescent light bulb)
- 3
masculinefilament (stalk of a stamen in a flower)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fio muito fino 2. fio usado em lâmpadas incandescentes e válvulas termoiônicas 3. estrutura em forma de fio, nos músculos, nervos, etc 4. estrutura que apoia o estame
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 filamento
- filamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filamento?
- Brazil /fi.laˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /fi.lɐˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /fi.lɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to filamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filamento in Portuguese?
filamento appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).