folhelho
Portuguese, noun/foˈʎe.ʎu/
folhelho is spelled F-O-L-H-E-L-H-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese, the 209,413th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Folhelho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “husk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “rocha sedimentar clástica, formada pela deposição de lama, com partículas de tamanhos desde o silte à argila”.
What does folhelho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehusk
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. rocha sedimentar clástica, formada pela deposição de lama, com partículas de tamanhos desde o silte à argila 2. o conjunto de folhas brancas que envolvem a espiga do milho 3. película que envolve frutos ou sementes
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 folhelho
- folhelhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce folhelho?
- Brazil /foˈʎe.ʎu/
- Portugal /fuˈʎɐ(j).ʎu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to folhelho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is folhelho in Portuguese?
folhelho appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).