hétero
Portuguese, noun/ˌɛ.te.ɾo/
hétero is spelled H-É-T-E-R-O (6 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,032nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hétero is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a heterosexual person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does hétero mean in English?
adjective
- 1
hetero, straight (heterosexual)
noun
- 1
femininemasculinea heterosexual person
prefix
- 1
hetero- (other; different)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. diferença
adjective: 1. heterossexual
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 hétero
- hétera feminine nonstandard proscribed
- héteros masculine plural
- héteras feminine nonstandard plural
- hetero alternative misspelling
- he.te.ro- canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hétero?
- Brazil /ˌɛ.te.ɾo/
- Portugal /ˌɛ.tɨ.ɾɔ/
- Brazil /ˈɛ.te.ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hétero
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hétero in Portuguese?
hétero appears 4.6 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).