minuta
Portuguese, noun/miˈnu.tɐ/
minuta is spelled M-I-N-U-T-A (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minuta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “draft (usually of an official document)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of minutar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “primeira versão de um documento ainda não definitivo, normalmente utilizado em contratos”.
What does minuta mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedraft (usually of an official document)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. primeira versão de um documento ainda não definitivo, normalmente utilizado em contratos
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 minuta
- minutas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minuta?
- Brazil /miˈnu.tɐ/
- Portugal /miˈnu.tɐ/
- Portugal /mi.ˈnu.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is minuta in Portuguese?
minuta appears 1.1 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).