metais
Portuguese, noun/meˈtajs/
metais is spelled M-E-T-A-I-S (6 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,736th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metais is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “plural of metal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrumentos musicais de latão, e que geralmente compõem uma orquestra”.
What does metais mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of metal
verb
- 1
second-person plural present subjunctive of meter
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instrumentos musicais de latão, e que geralmente compõem uma orquestra
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.
How do you pronounce metais?
- Brazil /meˈtajs/
- Brazil [meˈtaɪ̯s]
- /meˈtajʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to metais
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is metais in Portuguese?
metais appears 7.9 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).