maiúsculo
Portuguese, adjective
maiúsculo is spelled M-A-I-Ú-S-C-U-L-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 36,381st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maiúsculo is a Portuguese adjective meaning “capital (letter), uppercase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, maiusculo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of maiuscular”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “diz-se dos caracteres maiores do alfabeto, usados no início dos nomes próprios e das frases”.
What does maiúsculo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
capital (letter), uppercase
- 2
important, high-quality
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of maiuscular
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se dos caracteres maiores do alfabeto, usados no início dos nomes próprios e das frases: 2. o mesmo que versal 3. o mesmo que capital 4. o mesmo que caixa alta
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 maiúsculo
- maiúscula feminine
- maiúsculos masculine plural
- maiúsculas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to maiúsculo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maiúsculo in Portuguese?
maiúsculo appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).