mos
Portuguese, contraction
mos is spelled M-O-S (3 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,093rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mos is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of me + os: masculine plural of mo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, mós is a different word: “plural of mó”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração do pronome pessoal me com o pronome pessoal ou demonstrativo os”.
What does mos mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of me + os: masculine plural of mo
noun
- 1
plural of mó
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração do pronome pessoal me com o pronome pessoal ou demonstrativo os
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 mos
- m'os alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mos in Portuguese?
mos appears 4.1 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).