milissegundo
Portuguese, noun/mi.li.seˈɡũ.du/
milissegundo is spelled M-I-L-I-S-S-E-G-U-N-D-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Milissegundo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “millisecond” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “unidade de medida de tempo, corresponde a um milésimo de segundo”.
What does milissegundo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemillisecond
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. unidade de medida de tempo, corresponde a um milésimo de segundo
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 milissegundo
- milissegundos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce milissegundo?
- Brazil /mi.li.seˈɡũ.du/
- Portugal /mi.li.sɨˈɡũ.du/
- Portugal [mi.li.sɨˈɣũ.du]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to milissegundo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is milissegundo in Portuguese?
milissegundo appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).