microondas
Portuguese, noun
microondas is spelled M-I-C-R-O-O-N-D-A-S (10 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Microondas is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of micro-ondas; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “forno de micro-ondas”.
What does microondas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of micro-ondas; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. forno de micro-ondas
noun: 1. plural de microonda
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.
English words that translate to microondas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is microondas in Portuguese?
microondas appears 3.7 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).