metical
Portuguese, noun/me.t͡ʃiˈkaw/
metical is spelled M-E-T-I-C-A-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese, the 178,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metical is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “metical (the currency of Mozambique)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does metical mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetical (the currency of Mozambique)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of metical
- meticais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metical?
- Brazil /me.t͡ʃiˈkaw/
- Brazil [me.t͡ʃiˈkaʊ̯]
- Portugal /mɨ.tiˈkal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is metical in Portuguese?
metical appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).