mosquito
Portuguese, noun/mosˈki.tu/
mosquito is spelled M-O-S-Q-U-I-T-O (8 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mosquito is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “mosquito (flying insect)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequeno inseto de duas asas e pernas longas, cujas larvas vivem na água; pernilongo”.
What does mosquito mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemosquito (flying insect)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequeno inseto de duas asas e pernas longas, cujas larvas vivem na água; pernilongo
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 mosquito
- mosquitos plural
- mosquitinho diminutive
- mosquitito diminutive
- mosquitozinho diminutive
- mosquitozito diminutive
- mosquitão augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mosquito?
- Brazil /mosˈki.tu/
- Brazil /musˈki.tu/
- /moʃˈki.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mosquito
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mosquito in Portuguese?
mosquito appears 8.1 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).