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marechal

Portuguese, noun/ma.ɾeˈʃaw/

marechal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “marshal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mais alta patente das forças armadas de diversos países”.

What does marechal mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemarshal

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. mais alta patente das forças armadas de diversos países

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 marechal

  • marechais plural
  • marichal alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce marechal?

  • Brazil /ma.ɾeˈʃaw/
  • Brazil [ma.ɾeˈʃaʊ̯]
  • Portugal /mɐ.ɾɨˈʃal/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to marechal

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is marechal in Portuguese?

marechal appears 4.9 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).