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futsal

Portuguese, noun/futˈsaw/

futsal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “futsal (form of soccer)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “modalidade de futebol praticada em quadra fechada, com cinco jogadores em cada equipe”.

What does futsal mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefutsal (form of soccer)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. modalidade de futebol praticada em quadra fechada, com cinco jogadores em cada equipe

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 futsal?

  • Brazil /futˈsaw/
  • Brazil [futˈsaʊ̯]
  • Portugal /futˈsal/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to futsal

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is futsal in Portuguese?

futsal appears 7.9 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).