lumes
Portuguese, noun
lumes is spelled L-U-M-E-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,234th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lumes is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of lume” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fósforos, palitos para prender lume”.
What does lumes mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of lume
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fósforos, palitos para prender lume
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 lumes in Portuguese?
lumes 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).