formaldeído
Portuguese, noun/foʁ.maw.deˈi.du/
formaldeído is spelled F-O-R-M-A-L-D-E-Í-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,837th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Formaldeído is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “formaldehyde” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aldeído fórmico (CH₂O)”.
What does formaldeído mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineformaldehyde
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aldeído fórmico (CH₂O)
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.
How do you pronounce formaldeído?
- Brazil /foʁ.maw.deˈi.du/
- Brazil [foɦ.maʊ̯.deˈi.du]
- /foɾ.maw.deˈi.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to formaldeído
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is formaldeído in Portuguese?
formaldeído 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).