morfo
Portuguese, noun/ˈmɔʁ.fu/
morfo is spelled M-O-R-F-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 81,082nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Morfo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “any butterfly in the genus Morpho” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of morfar.
What does morfo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineany butterfly in the genus Morpho
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of morfar
prefix
- 1
morpho-
suffix
- 1
masculine-morphic
- 2
masculine-morphous
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of morfo
- morfos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce morfo?
- Brazil /ˈmɔʁ.fu/
- Brazil [ˈmɔh.fu]
- /ˈmɔɾ.fu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is morfo in Portuguese?
morfo appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).