mexilhão
Portuguese, noun/me.ʃiˈʎɐ̃w̃/
mexilhão is spelled M-E-X-I-L-H-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 56,596th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mexilhão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “mussel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “molusco lamelibrânquio comestível da família dos Mitilídeos”.
What does mexilhão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemussel
- 2
informalmasculinevagina (woman's genitalia)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. molusco lamelibrânquio comestível da família dos Mitilídeos
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 mexilhão
- mexilhões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mexilhão?
- Brazil /me.ʃiˈʎɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [me.ʃiˈʎɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /mi.ʃiˈʎɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mexilhão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mexilhão in Portuguese?
mexilhão appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).