meretriz
Portuguese, noun/me.ɾeˈtɾis/
meretriz is spelled M-E-R-E-T-R-I-Z (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,861st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meretriz is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “hooker, whore, prostitute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “prostituta, mulher da vida”.
What does meretriz mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehooker, whore, prostitute
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. prostituta, mulher da vida
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 meretriz
- meretrizes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce meretriz?
- Brazil /me.ɾeˈtɾis/
- /me.ɾeˈtɾiʃ/
- Portugal /mɨ.ɾɨˈtɾiʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to meretriz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is meretriz in Portuguese?
meretriz appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).