mensalão
Portuguese, noun
mensalão is spelled M-E-N-S-A-L-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,032nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mensalão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative letter-case form of Mensalão” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pagamento feito a parlamentares com o objetivo de apoiar o governo”.
What does mensalão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative letter-case form of Mensalão
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pagamento feito a parlamentares com o objetivo de apoiar o governo
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 mensalão
- mensalões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mensalão in Portuguese?
mensalão appears 4.6 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).