hansa
Portuguese, noun/ˈɐ̃.sɐ/
hansa is spelled H-A-N-S-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hansa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Hanse (guild of merchants around the Baltic coast)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “confederação de certo número de cidades da Alemanha do Norte para fins comercias (séculos XII a XVII)”.
What does hansa mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineHanse (guild of merchants around the Baltic coast)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. confederação de certo número de cidades da Alemanha do Norte para fins comercias (séculos XII a XVII)
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 hansa
- hansas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hansa?
- Brazil /ˈɐ̃.sɐ/
- Portugal /ˈɐ̃.sɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hansa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hansa in Portuguese?
hansa appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).