jazz
Portuguese, noun/ˈd͡ʒɛ(j)s/
jazz is spelled J-A-Z-Z (4 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,157th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jazz is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “jazz (musical genre that emerged in the early 20th century in the United States of America, resulting from the fusion of elements from…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “música moderna de origem negro-americana, muito difundida após a guerra de 1914-1918, caracterizada pelo…”.
What does jazz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejazz (musical genre that emerged in the early 20th century in the United States of America, resulting from the fusion of elements from different musical traditions)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. música moderna de origem negro-americana, muito difundida após a guerra de 1914-1918, caracterizada pelo improviso e pelas sonoridades e ritmos sincopados, basicamente extraídos do ragtime e do blues [Em sua forma mais popular, o jazz é especialmente vocal ou dançado; em suas formas elaboradas, destina-se a um público de concertos.]
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 jazz?
- Brazil /ˈd͡ʒɛ(j)s/
- Brazil [ˈd͡ʒɛ(ɪ̯)s]
- /ˈd͡ʒɛ(j)ʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to jazz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jazz in Portuguese?
jazz appears 13 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).