filhos
Portuguese, noun
filhos is spelled F-I-L-H-O-S (6 letters) and appears 195 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 477th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filhos is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “children (one's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of filho. With an accent, filhós is a different word: “alternative form of filhó”.
What does filhos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechildren (one's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter)
- 2
masculineplural of filho
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of filhó
noun
- 1
plural of filhó
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. alimento feito de massa fluída que é coalhada sobre uma superfície quente, composta da mistura, de farinha e um líquido como leite, ovos, ou caldo, tem forma circular aplanada e fina 2. diversos tipos de preparações culinárias que, tendo como base a farinha, são frigidas
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 filhos
- filhoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is filhos in Portuguese?
filhos appears 195 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).