habitual
Portuguese, adjective/a.bi.tuˈaw/
habitual is spelled H-A-B-I-T-U-A-L (8 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,851st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habitual is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “habitual (behaving in a regular manner, as a habit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que é ou se faz por hábito; usual; costumado”.
What does habitual mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinehabitual (behaving in a regular manner, as a habit)
- 2
femininemasculinehabitual (recurring, or that is performed over and over again)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que é ou se faz por hábito; usual; costumado:
noun: 1. o usual, o que é costume:
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 habitual
- habituais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce habitual?
- Brazil /a.bi.tuˈaw/
- Brazil [a.bi.tuˈaʊ̯]
- Brazil /a.biˈtwaw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to habitual
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habitual in Portuguese?
habitual appears 11 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).