fotão
Portuguese, noun/fɔˈtɐ̃w̃/
fotão is spelled F-O-T-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 100,600th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fotão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “photon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide fóton”.
What does fotão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephoton
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vide fóton
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 fotão
- fotões plural
- fóton alternative Brazil
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fotão?
- Portugal /fɔˈtɐ̃w̃/
- Portugal /fɔ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fotão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fotão in Portuguese?
fotão appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).