males
Portuguese, noun
males is spelled M-A-L-E-S (5 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,457th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Males is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of mal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, malês is a different word: “plural of malê”.
What does males mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of mal
noun
- 1
plural of malê
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação étnica dos escravos africanos muçulmanos iorubás
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 males in Portuguese?
males appears 4.4 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).