krill
Portuguese, noun
krill is spelled K-R-I-L-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,809th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Krill is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ser de diminuta dimensão e de natureza crustácea que habita os oceanos”.
What does krill mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekrill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ser de diminuta dimensão e de natureza crustácea que habita os oceanos
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 krill
- krills plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to krill
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is krill in Portuguese?
krill appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).