folhetim
Portuguese, noun/fo.ʎeˈt͡ʃĩ/
folhetim is spelled F-O-L-H-E-T-I-M (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Folhetim is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “the bottom half of a newspaper page, containing other than news” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “novela ou romance, geralmente de caráter melodramático, publicado regularmente em capítulos pela imprensa…”.
What does folhetim mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe bottom half of a newspaper page, containing other than news
- 2
masculineepisode of a serialised novel
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. novela ou romance, geralmente de caráter melodramático, publicado regularmente em capítulos pela imprensa, especialmente no séc. XIX
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 folhetim
- folhetins plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce folhetim?
- Brazil /fo.ʎeˈt͡ʃĩ/
- Portugal /fu.ʎɨˈtĩ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to folhetim
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is folhetim in Portuguese?
folhetim appears 1.1 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).