matryoshka
Portuguese, noun
matryoshka is spelled M-A-T-R-Y-O-S-H-K-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese, the 244,057th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matryoshka is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative spelling of matrioshka” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “boneca de madeira típica da Rússia, acompanhada de cópias de vários tamanhos, com uma se encaixando dentro da…”.
What does matryoshka mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative spelling of matrioshka
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. boneca de madeira típica da Rússia, acompanhada de cópias de vários tamanhos, com uma se encaixando dentro da outra
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 matryoshka
- matryoshkas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is matryoshka in Portuguese?
matryoshka appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).