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ing.

Portuguese, noun

ing. is spelled I-N-G (3 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ing. is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “abbreviation of inglês (“English”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does ing. mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineabbreviation of inglês (“English”)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. abreviatura de inglês, usada em dicionários para indicar etimologia

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 common is ing. in Portuguese?

ing. appears 1.4 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).

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