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metrô

Portuguese, noun

metrô is spelled M-E-T-R-Ô (5 letters) and appears 27 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,261st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metrô is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard form of metro” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, metro is a different word: “metre”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que metro (redução de metropolitano)”.

What does metrô mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    BrazilmasculineBrazilian Portuguese standard form of metro

noun

as metro
  1. 1

    masculinemetre

  2. 2

    masculinemetre stick

noun

as metro
  1. 1

    Portugalmasculinemetro, subway, underground

suffix

as -metro
  1. 1

    masculine-meter (forms the names of measuring devices)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. medida que regula a quantidade de sílabas de cada verso 2. sucessão de sílabas pronunciadas com intervalos regulares 3. forma rítmica de uma obra poética 4. verso

noun: 1. unidade fundamental das medidas de comprimento do sistema métrico decimal

noun: 1. abreviatura de metropolitano (caminho de ferro subterrâneo)

noun: 1. o mesmo que metro (redução de metropolitano)

suffix: 1. sufixo utilizado em termos científicos com o sentido de medida, medição

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 metrô

  • metros plural
  • metrô alternative Brazil
  • metrôs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to metrô

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is metrô in Portuguese?

metrô appears 27 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).

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