luís
Portuguese, noun/luˈis/
luís is spelled L-U-Í-S (4 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,675th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Luís is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “louis (gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “prenome muito popular na Europa e nas antigas monarquias europeias”.
What does luís mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelouis (gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. prenome muito popular na Europa e nas antigas monarquias europeias
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 luís
- luíses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce luís?
- Brazil /luˈis/
- /luˈiʃ/
- Portugal /luˈiʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is luís in Portuguese?
luís appears 34 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).