marquês
Portuguese, noun
marquês is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-Ê-S (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,755th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marquês is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “marquis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, marques is a different word: “second-person singular present subjunctive of marcar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “título nobiliárquico imediatamente inferior ao de duque e superior ao de conde”.
What does marquês mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemarquis
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of marcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. título nobiliárquico imediatamente inferior ao de duque e superior ao de conde
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 marquês
- marqueses plural
- marquesa feminine
- marquesas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to marquês
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is marquês in Portuguese?
marquês appears 23 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).